What is it that is impossible for God or what is he unable to do or accomplish. It is our lack of understanding, and right-seeing of whom God is that weakens our faith and ushers in doubt. Surely if we could truly grasp the infinite, limitless nature of God, all doubt and fear would be removed. I would venture to say that even the well known saying that we have nothing to fear but fear itself would be proven untrue when we come to the knowledge that even the spirit of fear is at the mercy of our almighty father. What’s more is that there nothing we could not do, rather moving mountains or parting seas, were we to grasp the unlimited resource of the Holy Spirit of God which dwells within us. 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? -1 Corinthians 3
In our often times sincere and right hearted pursuit of God, we may find that we, from the start, begin wrongly. This being because our very concept of God, of who God is, cripples us from the very offset. To consider him something obtainable, something comprehendible, something that we can wrap our finite minds around, is to inevitably limit his very being. To compare God to anything we’ve known, seen, heard or imagined, is to place him within the very limited realm of human understanding. Instead, we must recognize that he is a being without realm or scope, whose very essence defies all possibility of understanding. God cannot be placed in any box that we can contrive to fit him in. To truly know him, all of him, is a foreign concept that can never be fully realized.
Isaiah 55 describes it like this:
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Deuteronomy 4:15-18 conveys to us clearly the truth, that God is of no form or image known to man and thus cannot be represented or defined by any man made thing, either of the reality or the imagination. To do so would be to be guilty of the sin of idolatry.
15 “Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.
Why then is it written just a few short scriptures later and many other times throughout the word, in some way or other, that we are to seek God so that we may find him?
Deuteronomy 29 But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Isaiah 55 says this: 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
This is the beauty of the revelation of God through his holy word and the experiencing of his glory through the love and power of the Holy Spirit; that we can come to know him in some way, and the essence of who he is, as is revealed to us through his attributes.
“O Majesty unspeakable, my soul desires to behold Thee. I cry to Thee from the dust. Yet when I inquire after thy name it is secret. Thou art hidden in the light which no man can approach unto. What thou art cannot be thought or uttered, for Thy glory is ineffable. Still, prophet and psalmist, apostle and saint have encouraged me to believe that I may in some measure know Thee. Therefore, I pray, whatever of Thyself Thou hast been pleased to disclose, help me to search out as treasure more precious than rubies or the merchandise of fine gold: for with Thee shall I live when the stars of the twilight are no more and the heavens have vanished away and only Thou remainest. Amen.” -A.W. Tozer
1 Corinthians 2 Reveals to us our only hope in knowing him to any extent; that the Spirit of God knows the mind of God and reveals himself unto us:
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”[d]
But we have the mind of Christ
So we can know the attributes of God, which are revealed to us through the Holy Spirit but only those which have been revealed; as “God being infinite must possess attributes about which we can know nothing.” -A.W. Tozer
When we rightly see God as he is, being omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, being indescribable, uncontainable, and without bounds or limits then and only then can we understand the profound truth that nothing is impossible for God, as it is said “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13 NIV
