The Knowable God

If God is “knowable”, why not “know” Him?  To know Him we don’t have to “reinvent the wheel” rehearsing all the arguments for and against His existence.  To know Him, you do need to have a “witness” (Acts 1:8). Even to those who have received supernatural appearances of Jesus Christ (and multitudes of such appearances have been noted these days, particularly among Muslims), still a “witness” is necessary.

One of the things it seems most important about getting to “know” God is that very process enables me to get a grip on my own identity.  That’s for the simple reason He made me (and all mankind) in His image (Genesis 1:27).  Therefore, what’s truest about Him is truest about me.  And the obverse is true, if I don’t know Him, I can never know me.

At this point I need some help, even a “guide”.  For starters I need someone who can tell me how this “gap” between God and me can be bridged.  This is where the “witness” or “preacher” comes in.  The preacher can tell you, because someone previously told him, that Jesus Christ has come to bridge the gap that stands between us.  That gap is “sin”.  It’s “missing the mark”, not “measuring up” to what’s required for a relationship with God to take place.  The preacher will necessarily say this condition is common to all men and not correctable by the best of self-effort of the most talented of persons—because it’s a spiritual matter.

Our forebearer, Adam, operated freely in the “spirit realm” even as a man, having open fellowship with God, conversing freely with Him, knowing God and knowing Himself.  Then Adam “blew” it; he blew himself and all his “down line” (all of humanity since) totally out of the spirit realm.  God had told Adam that in the day you disobey Me (symbolized by Adam’s partaking fruit of a forbidden tree), you will die.  Adam partook and died (spiritually).  Now man is in a “fine pickle”.  He’s cut off from God and from himself, knowing neither.  What’s he to do?

God had the answer.  He would patiently, over centuries of time, provide a way for man to get back into relationship with Him.  It involved establishing an unbreakable relationship (covenant), which certain people could enter into (providing a way ultimately for all people to enter into), paving the way for One to come to negate the offence caused by Adam. 

This One was called Jesus, or the “2^nd Adam”, the “Restorer” who through His sinless life [He never exercised His will against that of the Father] and death upon a Cross [shedding there His blood for my sin and for the sins of all mankind], satisfied the just and righteous requirement of a Holy God enabling me, through the acceptance of what Jesus did and turning my life over to Him, to once again have a relationship with the One, True, Holy, and Only God.

Yes, God is “knowable”, and only “knowable” through Jesus Christ.  You can know Him, too.