That God can be known by the soul...

“… Teach us to know what we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.

In Jesus’ name. Amen.”

"The child, the philosopher, and the religionist have all one question: ‘What is God like?' This book is an attempt to answer that question. Yet at the outset I must acknowledge that it cannot be answered except to say that God is not like anything; that is, He is not exactly like anything or anybody.

We learn by using what we already know as a bridge over which we pass to the unknown…

The yearning to know What cannot be known, to comprehend the Incomprehensible, to touch and taste the Unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its Source. How can this be realized?

The answer of the Bible is simply ‘through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure, although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love and organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

‘Verily God is of infinite greatness,’ says Christ’s enraptured troubadour, Richard Rolle; ‘more than we think; , , , unknowable by created things; and can never be comprehended by us as He is in Himself. But even hear and now, whenever the heart begins to burn with a desire for God, she is made able to receive the uncreated light and, inspired and fulfilled by the gifts of the Holy Ghost, she tastes the joys of heaven.

She transcends all visible things and is raised to the sweetness of eternal life. . . . Herein truly is perfect love; when all the intent of the mind, all the secret working of the heart, is lifted up into the love of God.’

That God can be known by the soul in tender personal experience while remaining infinitely aloof from the curious eyes of reason constitutes a paradox best described as

'Darkness to the intellect
But sunshine to the heart.'
- Frederick W. Faber

“Let her suppose that all the whole world and the most refined conceptions of the wisest intellects can tell her nothing and that the goodness and beauty of her Beloved infinitely surpass all their knowledge, being persuaded that all creatures are too rude to inform her and to conduct her to the true knowledge of God. . . .

She ought then to go forward with her love, leaving all her understanding behind. Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is and pictures Him.”

- The Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer

The degree to which I resonated with those words so deeply made me realized I am being wooed and pursued by My Beloved in a way that I can hardly express nor understand but know to be true with everything in me. There is none like You...

May I love You with an undying love. "We love you, Lord, we worship You... You alone are our God. You alone are good..."