Have you ever tried to contemplate what can be known of God? An acquaintance of Job, Elihu, while rebuking him made this statement about God: “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out” (Job 37:23). His point was that God is far beyond our limited human comprehension and no amount of searching on our part can bring an understanding of him within our grasp.
The Apostle Paul went even further by testifying that it was God’s arrangement that man might not find God out through man’s own wisdom, but rather by the preaching of the cross. He wrote to the church in Corinth, “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” (I Corinthians 1:21). Simply stated, man cannot find out God by his own wisdom, but he can know him through simple faith.
The approach to God through faith is accessible to all men by God’s design. Paul declared it is both “to the wise and to the unwise” (Romans 1:14). Man cannot find him out otherwise. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9). Yet this God who inhabits eternity has chosen to make himself known through his Son to those who will receive him. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” (John 1:18).
Mankind can look as long and as hard as he can for God, but he will not find him and know him unless he looks to the Son. Jesus told Philip, one of his disciples, “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9). (He has revealed him!) John wrote to his audience “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also” (I John 2:23). Jesus rebuked the Pharisees, “Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also” (John 8:19).
The Scriptures reveal plainly that the path to knowing God is through Jesus Christ. Christ declared unequivocally “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me” (John 14:6). Yes, God the Father is beyond our comprehension and beyond our reach, but we can know him through his Son, Jesus.
Perhaps, what is just as remarkable as the opportunity to know God through Christ is that God the Father wants to be known by us! “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:16-17). “And this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).
God, who is beyond our comprehension, has made a way for us to know him and that way is Jesus Christ. To know Christ is to know God. Have you received the Savior?
From the Chaplain 