Are we able to grasp who God is by ourselves?  Can we ever explain him?  Some of the most brilliant human minds have thought their way to one god, many gods or even no gods at all.  We think that it is down to us to find God and we are smart enough to do it.

Has God really left us to find him by our own efforts?  No! He came to us as Jesus making himself known to us.  Jesus is the very unveiling of God himself in our world.  To know what God is like we don’t begin with what we think he is like. We rather fix our eyes on Jesus as God living, moving and relating in the world.   For Jesus did not simply act for God in the world as many others have done.  Jesus is unique, he acted as God in the world.  Who God is within himself is made known in its deepest depths in this man Jesus.  He is the very revelation of God among us. So, we do not simply look at Jesus as God; we also look at God as Jesus.  That changes everything!  We now see God as he really is – full of lowly self-giving love as one of us.

And now this majestic and humble God comes to us encountering us personally through Jesus and by the Spirit.  He opens himself to us as the living God who always surpasses our knowing.  We don’t decide who God is or what God is like.  That means we cannot own God.  We cannot make knowledge of him our own possession.