What is God Like?

By Paula Williamson guest writer

Who can truly know God?His ways are far higher than ours. He spoke the universe into existence and sustains it by His power. He is beyond full human understanding—yet Scripture tells us that we can know Him.

How?

Through Jesus.

Jesus is the exact representation of the Father. If we want to know what God is like, we only need to look at the Son. In Him, the invisible God becomes visible. In His life, we see the heart of the Father revealed.

It Is WrittenEphesians 1:17–19“I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation that gives you a deep and personal and intimate knowledge of Him. And that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened—flooded with light—so that you will know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His people, and the immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of His power in us who believe.”

Jesus

Jesus healed the sick, cast out demons, and raised the dead. He touched the untouchable and loved the overlooked. He confounded the wise and lifted the humble. No other life has so profoundly impacted the world as this one solitary life.

But more than His miracles, it is His heart that reveals God.Compassion. Mercy. Truth. Power. Sacrifice.

If you have seen Jesus, you have seen the Father.

Prayer

Lord, I want what Paul prayed for.Give me a spirit of wisdom and revelation so I may truly know You.Open the eyes of my heart—flood them with Your light.Help me to understand the hope You’ve called me to and the riches of Your inheritance.Let me begin to grasp the immeasurable, unlimited greatness of Your power at work in me.

Takeaway

God is not distant or unknowable.He has made Himself known.

If you want to know what God is like—look at Jesus.