Using A.W. Tozer's book Knowledge of the Holy as a reference, we will attempt to uncover a description of God from what he says about Himself in the Bible. This study will last about three weeks, but our goal should be to learn as much about Him as we can throughout our entire lifetimes. This study will give us a good start to build upon.
God Incomprehensible
We should understand that there will never be an accurate description of God, and our attempt to picture Him in our minds could become idolatry because we would be picturing Him as things we've seen in the flesh, but He is nothing like what we have ever seen. When Ezekiel tried to describe what he saw, he had a hard time finding words to depict Him accurately and mostly described the other beings he saw with him.
Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filledwith the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory. Ezekiel 10:4
" The intellect knoweth that it is ignorant of Thee," said Nicholas of Cusa," because it knoweth Thou canst not be known, unless the unknowable could be known, and the invisible beheld, and the inaccessible attained."
God is unlike anything we've ever seen, and our imagination cannot contain Him. Worship Him without a picture in your mind's eye because what you see is not Him.
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