The God You Can Know

God wants to be known by you, and you can know as much about Him as you have the appetite and desire to know. Louie Giglio wants you to know there is never going to be a moment in your pursuit of God where there’s a sign that says, “authorized personnel only beyond this point. You can go as high up on the mountain as you want to go.” Our God is The God You Can Know.

God is revealing the attributes of Himself, and when we come to the fact that God is Sovereign we have to understand that is fundamental to our view of and relationship with Him. Louie Giglio reminds us that we aren’t dealing with a god who is on our level. Our God is seated on a throne high and exalted with all rule and all authority. He is Sovereign. What does this mean for you? This mean He is able; able to do whatever He wants to do, and He can. This means your God is more powerful than the mess you find yourself in, than the circumstances around you, than anything and everything you will encounter. In a chaotic world, your God is sitting high and exalted, able and willing to do what is best for your life because He desires you to be with Him.

Who is this God we can know? How can we know that we can trust that he is bigger than our circumstances? His name is Elohim, El Olam, the everlasting and eternal God. His story is not confined to our story, in fact, His story is not even confined to time. He has been and will be. And yet, with all of existence within Him He has chosen you before the foundations of the Earth. He loves you, He is for you, and He wants you to know more and more of who He is. This week, Louie Giglio wants us to broaden the lens through which we see God. After all, in order to have a right view of our lives, we have to have a right view of God. We need to know that there is a deeper level of spirituality we have access to because our God is calling us into it. He is the everlasting and eternal God; before all and after all and yet He is aware of the most minute details of your life. The God you can know knows you, and He loves you.

Have you felt it? The sense that we’ve lost the wonder? The feeling that we have lost sight of the awesome scale of our God. We’ve decided to look at Him under a microscope, limiting our ability to see a more full picture of who God truly is and deciding on our own which attributes of the Eternal and Almighty God we want to accept. What we need, however, is to open the aperture through which we are willing to look at God in all of his likenesses and dive deeper into His Wisdom, His Holiness, His Mercy. Louie Giglio wants us to focus on God’s Wrath and His Mercy. It’s only by fully realizing the one, that we can appreciate in earnest the other. God’s Mercy only makes the impact on our lives that it should when we have a full grasp of His Wrath that was due us until it was poured upon Jesus that day on Calvary answering the prayers of God’s people: LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. Habakkuk 3:2