Illustrating the nature of God, the nature of man, and the nature of their relationship.

• “No man has seen God at any time.”¹
• “No man can see God and live.”²
• “My thoughts are not your thoughts, saith the Lord, neither are your ways my ways.”³

If these biblical statements are indeed true, then God is unknowable . . . unless he chooses to make himself known.

But, like any good teacher, he has to show us by relating himself to something we already know. Otherwise, it would be like asking a human to read binary code. So many ones and zeroes in seemingly random order would hardly make sense to us.

So, in a way, this blog—and eventual book—will be a word study. But not just a word study. It will be a grace study, a study of the grace God shows in revealing himself to us in ways we can understand.

“Let him who has ears, let him hear,” Jesus said.⁴ And even more than that, let them who have any of the senses appealed to in these metaphors, let them understand.

1. John 1:18, 2. Exodus 33:20, 3. Isaiah 55:8, 4. Luke 8:8