When I first came to faith, I knew very little about God. However. in my journey, I soon became serious about knowing who God is and what he is like.  I realised that I needed to think hard about who God is. So, I read books on knowing God. However, I did not see that I needed to think first about how we know God.  I failed to see that the way we know God determines the kind of knowledge we have of him. So what is the right way of knowing God?  Where do we find out what God is really like? We continue using our minds to discover who God is and what he is like. Nevertheless, we must humbly accept that we are not in charge of knowing God. Knowledge of God begins with God’s desire to make himself known and it happens as God unveils himself through Jesus and by his Spirit. We come to know God in living encounters as those now known by God.  

Knowledge of God is relational and given relationally as he encounters us through Jesus and by his Spirit. And our knowing grows ever deeper from inside the circle of our life within the Triune Communion and not from without?  Within that communion, we pray with Paul that we may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,  and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.