At times, when little children are asked who they are, the response is similar to this:
“My name is Horatio Clarence Raw and I’m 4 years old.”
(Rather unfortunate name for a little guy. 😊)
In their mind, a full name and age, tells you everything you need to know about them. As adults, we realize there is much more to know about a child than their name and age. Throughout our lifetime of relationships, we continue to learn new and interesting things about others.
God is beyond the limitations of our universe. Scripture tells us many things about who God is, but it also says that we are not able to understand all of God. God is extraordinary, unparalleled, above all we can imagine.
Isaiah 40:28
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.
Isaiah 55: 8-9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Psalm 147:5
Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.
There is not a complete list of all God is. That is an exciting and encouraging statement. If we could know and understand everything about God, why would we need Him? He would be confined by the limits of our understanding. That is not our God. Our God is inscrutable, unsupersedable, and infinite.
Amazingly, God desires that we know and grow in relationship with Him.
In John 17, Jesus’ prayer gives us a glimpse into the relationship between Father and Son, while Jesus was on earth.
John 17: 25-26
O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; 26and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Jesus prays that the love between Father and Son would extend to our relationship with God. What a beautiful invitation to begin relationship with Father and Son.