How can we know who God is and what he is like?  Some “good” things promise to point us towards God, but eventually, they may divert our attention away from him.  If misused, human ideals, moral values, religious attitudes, practices of spirituality, and the quest for meaning may become central rather than God. 

God must make himself known to us.  And that is exactly what God has done and is doing through Jesus and the Spirit.  We remain in the dark when we try to find God through our own religious efforts.  He gives himself to us. Our part is to be attentive and responsive to him. We certainly should not rely on ideas arising from our imagination. That method takes human descriptions and casts God in that shape.

Through the Word who became flesh, God appeared in history. He became a human walking the earth in time and space. And now, through that same Jesus, God continually reveals himself to the eyes of our hearts by his Spirit.  All knowledge of God comes from God through Jesus and by his Spirit. “The God who said, ‘Light will shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ”  (2 Corinthians 4:6).  

We do not “possess” knowledge of God.  We only know God through God. There is a double movement of Grace. The Father makes himself known through Jesus by the Spirit.  And by the Spirit, through Jesus, we know the Father.