What do you understand about who God is?
God is love. Simply put, but yet God is infinitely more complicated than that. I have come to know God in the love that has been given to me by others and by the love that I give to others. We are made in the image of God so the love we share with each other is but a glimpse of the love that God has for us, for me. We can never fully comprehend the magnitude of God's love for us because frankly we lack the language that could communicate and understand that love. However, I know it because I feel it and I can see it in the physical world around, in the relationships I share.
This is a easy, yet complex question. We come to know God through God's self-revelation to us through Jesus Christ. This self-revelation has and continues to be given to us in many other ways, through prophetic witness, radical hospitality, and prayer. These were embodied by Jesus and was central to his life and teachings. They have also been embodied by other people throughout human history. God clearly desires a relationship with us and not just as an acquaintance, but an intimate and genuine relationship. While we can get a mere glimpse at who God is through these experiences we will never know the entirety of who God is. That is both daunting and comforting. It is daunting because of the sheer enormity of who God is, yet it is comforting because this also means that anything is possible in God and through God.
Lord, help me to continue to keep my gaze upon you, striving to see your presence in the world around me. Amen.
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