You have two options when He does that.
Option 1: Get frustrated. Get bitter. Throw your hands up and say "screw it, He's too hard to know." Have the attitude that this isn't worth all the hardship, trying to walk this out when you don't get it. Give in and and go back--back on everything, back to everything that's familiar and knowable. And Egypt. Get cynical and jaded and judgemental. Knit-pick and fault-find your way out of this because it's easier to say it was all one big mistake. A ruse. A hoax. A lie.
And it would be exactly the bait the enemy wants to serve you. He loves to discredit God and all He is and has done in our lives.
Option 2: Keep going. Get low and get humble. Admit you don't know all the answers but Your God is still good, He's still just, and still worth it all. Admit that He is God, and you are not. Admit it's hard. Admit your great need--which is still Him in all things. It's still Him you want. It's still Him you desire, even more than before because now you've found out the real truth--the great depths too deep to measure about the One true God you had tried to fit in your box. And Him, our Pearl of Great Price, is worth every little ounce of our being.
And I'm telling you, option two is His plan. It's His sovereign plan to bring about His own steadfastness in our lives. It's His idea to forge His own relentless Spirit with ours at the point of greatest strain. Who can know all that He has in store for building us--His kingdom--His way? And for those of us who don't say "when," and turn back, we have a glorious reward: Christ Himself, the hope of glory.
So if He has to empty out all our pockets of even the little ideas and opinions about Him, I say do it. Wreck us. Let us not be caught stuck in our own understandings about who we think He is. May we be teachable and moldable, open to know Him like we've never known Him before--as He is.
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