Want to know God?

Valley Grande Baptist Church

A children’s Sunday School teacher taught a lesson about God’s love. After the lesson, she instructed the children to draw a picture and asked one little girl what she was drawing. Immediately the little girl said, “I am drawing a picture of God.” The teacher responded kindly, “But no one knows what God looks like.” Undaunted the little girl replied, “Well, they will now.”

Many people wonder what God looks like. Although the Bible never gives us a physical description of God, it does answer the question of what God is like. John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. … And the Word became flesh and lived for a while among us” (John 1:1, 14). In this passage the “Word” that John mentions is Jesus Christ. Jesus is God who left heaven’s glory to be born as a baby in a manger and died on a cross to show us what God is like.

Just before He was crucified, Jesus told His disciples that He was going away but they knew the way to the place where He was going. In frustration, Thomas cried out, “Lord, we don’t know where You are going, so how can we know the way” (John 14:5). Jesus responded, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

If we want to understand who God is we must look at Jesus. Jesus is the divine Son of God who shows us who God is and also shows us the only way that we can “know Him.”

Do you want to know God? John 3:16 sums up how we can “know God.” “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” You can only “know God” by believing that God loves you enough to give His only Son to die for you and deciding to follow Jesus.

“Knowing God” is a lifelong process of trusting Jesus Christ and following Him. “Knowing God” is the journey that I have chosen, and if you want to “know God” I invite you to join me on that journey.