Are we able to discover who God is by our own reasoning?If you ask people about God, they may say, I think God is… In their own minds, they decide what God is like or even if he exists.  That isn’t where we should begin.  God has shown us what he is like by unveiling himself through Jesus and his Spirit.  That means we always begin by saying, God is like Jesus.  

Through Jesus, God unveils himself showing who he is as Love. In love, the Father’s Son came to us as a human person.  He participated freely and fully in our human plight, going down to the very lowest place on the cross. He faithfully walked towards the cross in self-giving love for us.  In this dark event, God unveils himself showing who he is as Love. 

How do we come to know this truth of God as Love? Jesus tells us that he is the way and the TRUTH and the life. He is the truth about God because he is the true God.  He is the truth about us because he is the True Human.  We come to know him as the truth as he encounters us personally by the Spirit of Truth.  And so, this truth is personal.  The risen Jesus comes to us in personal encounters as the presence of God with us and for us as one of us. We do not know the truth in this dynamic way constantly and perfectly.. Far from it! The point is that Jesus is the truth coming to us personally by the Spirit of truth