Whether it be in the church nursery or in the halls of a university, one of the resounding questions is, “What is God like?” What comes to your mind when you set out to answer this question? Your response is foundational to your spiritual life. Where a foundation is weak, the entire structure will eventually fail. We attempt to make God fit within the norms and expectations that we craft for Him, and this is catastrophic. Psalm 50:21 says, “You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes.” The reality is that God is not exactly like anything. When we try to imagine Him or understand Him by a comparison with any other being, we are guilty of idolatry. Idols made of thoughts are no different than idols made of metal.
Job 11:7 says, “Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?” The “deep things” refer here to His nature. Verse 8 goes on to say that this knowledge is higher and deeper than we can go. Every aspect of God’s nature is bigger than we have the capacity to comprehend. Psalm 18:30 says, “As for God, His way is perfect.” Isaiah 55:8-9 says that His ways and thoughts are higher than our ways and thoughts. We are limited in our ability to comprehend the things of this world, how much more so the infinite God!
This is humbling, but it should not be frustrating. God intends for us to be overwhelmed with who He is. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” God has made us so that we cannot find Him out. This is essential to worship. If we could find God out, we could then move on to bigger and better things. When we find something out, we in a sense have a mastery over it. This is infinitely undoable with God. He is beyond the reaches of our complete comprehension. Romans 11:33 “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”
Though we will not completely master who God is, Ephesians 3:14-19 says that we can be filled with the fullness of God, and this comes by knowing the love of Christ. John 1:18 says that what we can know about God is all demonstrated in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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