Why does God keep some things secret?

Les explains that God keeps some things secret because He is sovereign and can do whatever He wants. Many people wrongly imagine God as an easygoing grandfather type who can be manipulated or tweaked to get whatever they want, but that is not the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible is sovereign, absolute, holy, and righteous, yet also loving, kind, merciful, and patient. In His sovereignty, He has every right to keep things secret as long as He wants, and He will reveal them when He is good and ready, not until. Deuteronomy 29:29 says the secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Les notes this was written by Moses, but the God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New. Though responsibilities differ, God has not changed; what He hated then He still hates, and what He forbade Israel then He still does not condone today. He is the same God and the same secret holder we deal with today.