Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! Romans 11:33 (NKJV)
I seek to grow closer and deeper in my relationship with my God. He is my savior, my guide, my creator, lover of my soul, director of my paths, cleanser of my sins, and so much more! I was asked the other day in an interview, “Who is God?”; now they did not expect me to define God completely of course, but the question got me thinking that I could never truly answer that question with any true justice. I know there is one true God; one in essence, while three in person (Father, Spirit, Son). Yet I cannot wrap my mind around God, His ways, His triune existence, His omnipotence, etc; He is too big, too complex, and too limitless for my mind to fully comprehend.
Although many have tried to put Him in one, God won’t fit in a box! We are experiential and relational beings; we derive our understanding of everything from the information that we have come in contact with. That’s why, I believe we have a hard time thinking of questions like, “Where did God come from?”, “When was God’s beginning?”, etc. We have a beginning and we can trace our ancestry back, sometimes hundreds of years, so naturally and logically we try to give God these traits. The problem is that God is not a created being, unlike everything we know and see that has a designer, a former, and a beginning; God simply is, and was, and always will be. God told Moses simply, “I am”, and later in Revelation He called Himself, “the beginning and the end, the first and the last”. He is and He is unable to be boxed.
Some men decide that if they can’t explain God or with their logic define God, then there must not be a God. I say that if they could do those things, they would be correct. Fortunately for us they are terrible mistaken. God is; furthermore He is good, loving, holy… the list goes on and on. Though, one of my favorite characteristics of God is that He is personal; although He is such a magnificent and indefinable God, He cares for each individual on a personal level and desires a personal relationship with each and everyone.
Sometimes God reveals pieces of Himself and His being to us, we are given the Bible to study and read so that we may have and grow in our relationships with the one and only true God. Other times God’s ways, judgments, plans, etc. are hidden from us or beyond our understanding. My dad quoted often to me when I would ask him a question He could not answer, “Deuteronomy 29:29, Son!”
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29 (NKJV)
Stop trying to put God in a box; He won’t fit!
For some good reading on the Triune existence of God, check out God in three persons: A doctrine we barely understand
Another Good resource is www.Jesus.org
