1 Timothy 6:16 - "who alone has
immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see,
to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen."
God dwells in inapproachable light, Whom no man has seen or can see. Our minds
cannot even comprehend God. There are people who try to figure God out and pack
Him into their tiny little minds, but the truth is we cannot comprehend Him.
When approaching this subject of God incomprehensible in the knowledge of
the Holy A.W. Tozer says "What is God like?... that question cannot be
answered except to say that God is not like anything; that is, He is not exactly
like anything or anybody." And that's true. God is completely different
and completely separate from anything that we know or understand. When asked
the question "what is God like?" we can give an answer like,
"God is like this, or God is like that" comparing Him to things that
He created, things that we can know or understand. And while there may be truth
in that, that God reveals Himself through the things He created, God is not
exactly like any created thing.
The writers of Scripture ran into the same problem that we do when speaking of God. A perfect
example of this is Ezekiel chapter one. Throughout the entire first chapter of
Ezekiel we find him using words like: something like, resembling, appearance,
form, like, likeness, looked like, as it were, something resembling, etcetera.
Just for a taste of this Ezekiel 1:26-28 says - "And above the firmament
over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like
a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness
with the appearance of a man high above it. Also from the appearance
of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance
of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and
downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with
brightness all around. Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a
rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This
was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." We
get the idea that what he is seeing is something very real, but also something
very different from anything that we know or can know here on earth. Something
entirely foreign to humanity. Ezekiel tries to describe the indescribable and
to comprehend the incomprehensible, and his language seems very strange to us.
Even under the influence of the Holy Spirit the best he could say was
"This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord."
In John 1:18 we're told - "No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten
Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him." Jesus, God
in the flesh, came to reveal Himself to us. He took on the image of a created
being in order to explain the uncreated one to us. Concerning Him 1 John 1:4-5
says - "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." Our minds
cannot comprehend God, but our hearts can revel in Him anyway. Someone
described it as "Darkness to the intellect, but sunshine to the
heart." This is what's talked about in 1 Corinthians 2:9-11 which says - "But as
it is written: “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God
has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things,
yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the
spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God
except the Spirit of God." We will never be able to figure God out with
our minds, or explain Him with our intellect. But we can know Him, only
by His revelation. We can't know everything about Him, or really, I'm
convinced, even scratch the surface of what He is like. But God has revealed
Himself to us, both by His Son, and by His Spirit. He has shown to us certain
things that are true of Him in what we call "Gods attributes."
It's mind blowing that though we cannot comprehend God, we can know Him. I say
along with David in Psalm 139 - "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it."
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