How God Reveals Himself To Us, A Call to Faith, Lesson 2, God, 8-10
Many people who come to the church asking about God come with many misconceptions about Him.
They come with so many questions about Him, insisting that they be answered before admitting any faith, that they can never see the forest for the trees in front of them. We have questions about predestination, or baptism, or communion, or free will that we want answered, so that the church never gets the opportunity to tell us about God.
We must lay aside these questions, for we cannot possibly understand them unless first we establish our faith in God. And we must establish our faith in God at the point where God approaches us — that is, in His revelation of Himself.
We should understand perfectly that we cannot understand God except as He reveals Himself to us. We do not find God by searching, and finding Him or put Him under a microscope to discover what He is. Nor do we sit down before the fire in a comfortable chair, and try to figure out what God must be like.
The first of these ways was that of science, and the other the way of philosophy, but neither of these ways is a way to know a person, and God is a person. God is known only as any other person is known, and that is by revealing himself. A youth might see a cute girl at a party, and want to know here, and might dream up all sorts of background for her, but he cannot know her until he meets her face-to-face, and she by words and deeds reveals herself to him.
We are indeed very fortunate that God has spoken and acted, and thereby revealed Himself to us. We are fortunate because many of these deeds and encounters have been recorded for us in the scriptures, so that we are not dependent on our own experiences, but we have a wealth of experiences of other people.
All these experiences are evidence — evidence which is compounded for us. We are not left with only the few encounters we may have with God to form an opinion about God, but we know how He appeared to many other people.
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