What are you grateful for? You may be thankful for many things—for all the evidences of good in your life, from friendships and family, to home, health, and freedom. For those of a religious persuasion, it’s easy to connect the good to God as the source of all goodness—and to feel grateful to God. But are we really grateful for God?
All of this begs the question of knowing God—something that runs counter to the common perception that God is either a mystery, inherently unknowable, or so otherworldly, so outside of everyday life, that we couldn’t understand Him. Yet the Bible, more than any other compilation, has captured not only the search to comprehend God, but what has been learned and demonstrated of humanity’s connection to Him. The Scriptures, in fact, encourage all: “Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (II Timothy 3:14, 15).
We can trust Christ Jesus because no one knew God better, or loved Him more. In fact, Jesus’ healing works rebuke to this day the assumption of an incomprehensible or distant Deity.
