We do not discover what God is like by drawing on our ideas.  Nor do we gain this knowledge from a teacher. No! We come to know God because he became present to us through the activity of his Spirit. This Spirit, who searches the “depths of God,” revealed Jesus to us so that we came to know God through Jesus. 

We may speak about our journey towards God. However, we must first turn this around to emphasise God’s journey toward us.  In the person of Jesus, God came to us as one of us. And now he comes to us personally through this Spirit, gathering us into his family. In this journey, God finds us where we are and discloses what he is like through Jesus and in his Spirit.  So a Trinity of divine persons is working together to draw us into the life of God.

The only way we grasp the truth about God is for God to grasp us telling us again and again what he is like. Why? Because God is The Truth and is in charge of the truth.  Furthermore, as broken and fractured beings, we have no capacity in and of ourselves to find the truth about God. God alone shares himself with us.

The Living God is still speaking.  He is not simply the God of the past, but the God who is present here and now by his Spirit. And only by this Spirit, who searches the depths of God, do we come to know God. Therefore, with Paul, we keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better (Ephesians 1: 17).