LOL, I'm getting my Sunday morning workout here, aren't I?!
I will readily admit that giving answers suitable for four-year-olds (or seven-year-olds even) is not my forte! I think it would depend on the personality of the kid(s) in question how I'd answer this -- what aspects of not being able to see or hear God with their physical senses are most frustrating for them.
But anyway, trying to keep it simple:
If they're concerned that not being able to hear God talk means that they don't know what He's like or what He wants from them, then I'd point to the Bible as God's letter to us to help us get to know Him and understand how we should live our lives.
If they're concerned that being unable to see God means that maybe He doesn't exist, I'd use Christ's example from John 3 of how the wind blows and you don't know where it's come from or where it's going (and you can't see it), but that doesn't mean it's not real. You can see the effects of the wind, the way it moves the clouds around; and as Paul says in the book of Romans, since the beginning of the world God's existence has been evident by looking at the world He created. And of course when it comes to Jesus, we have the testimony of many, many people who saw Him and walked with Him and recorded His words for us to read.
Another thought that may or may not be of interest/help to them is that if God revealed Himself to us in a way that we couldn't possibly deny -- i.e. by letting us see Him or speaking to us in a voice we could hear -- then we would have no choice but to believe in Him, whether we wanted to know Him and seek Him or not. And God wants us to come to Him of our own free will, in faith, not because we have no other choice.
I don't know if this helps even slightly, but there it is!
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I will readily admit that giving answers suitable for four-year-olds (or seven-year-olds even) is not my forte! I think it would depend on the personality of the kid(s) in question how I'd answer this -- what aspects of not being able to see or hear God with their physical senses are most frustrating for them.
But anyway, trying to keep it simple:
If they're concerned that not being able to hear God talk means that they don't know what He's like or what He wants from them, then I'd point to the Bible as God's letter to us to help us get to know Him and understand how we should live our lives.
If they're concerned that being unable to see God means that maybe He doesn't exist, I'd use Christ's example from John 3 of how the wind blows and you don't know where it's come from or where it's going (and you can't see it), but that doesn't mean it's not real. You can see the effects of the wind, the way it moves the clouds around; and as Paul says in the book of Romans, since the beginning of the world God's existence has been evident by looking at the world He created. And of course when it comes to Jesus, we have the testimony of many, many people who saw Him and walked with Him and recorded His words for us to read.
Another thought that may or may not be of interest/help to them is that if God revealed Himself to us in a way that we couldn't possibly deny -- i.e. by letting us see Him or speaking to us in a voice we could hear -- then we would have no choice but to believe in Him, whether we wanted to know Him and seek Him or not. And God wants us to come to Him of our own free will, in faith, not because we have no other choice.
I don't know if this helps even slightly, but there it is!