--Despite the unfathomable mystery of God, He is also a Being who wants to be known by us and who has made Himself knowable by us with our faculties.
--Yesterday, we said that part of this revelation is through the artwork of the world around us, natural laws, and even our bodies themselves.
--In addition, we have the Scriptures which are predicated on the notion that God both can be known and wants to be known. God chooses to use language to communicate with us, a mystery reinforced by the Bible’s own description of Jesus as The Word.
--And in the Bible, we have a God who reveals Himself through actions and poetry and symbols and miracles and declarations and even rules which He issues. All of this is a tremendous source of knowledge.
--And what’s interesting about this compendium of God is that it all points to the single greatest event in all of history: the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, an endless treasure trove of revelation about the nature of God.
--But one final piece of the knowability of God is well worth mentioning: personal experience. Precisely because God is a personal Being who wants relationship with each of us, we must always be paying attention to the ways God uniquely reveals Himself to us through our ideas and our experiences.
--And sometimes this is scary to people because it means that some people will know things about God through their subjective experience of him that others won’t have access to, but this is part and parcel of the idea of having a personal relationship: uniqueness. Those who want Him to be only objective inadvertently turn Him into a non-mystery. And so rather than a threat to the objective truth of God, personal experience is actually a reinforcement of both His knowability and His mystery.
--We will never know all there is to be known about God, but we should always be making progress. And even if the progression is infinite, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t real progress.
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