Not only are we never going to be able to truly know all that God knows, we are never going to be able to know in the way that God knows things. In other words, when God knows something He understands all of it. For Himself, He knows Himself completely and in absolute perfection. When He knows something about you or me, or anything He created, He knows it as the perfect Creator.

The Bible teaches that God is incomprehensible. God is so far above us as the supreme being and only infinite being that we as finite creatures are never going to be able to know and understand all that there is to Him. Even to say we are like an ant trying to understand the vastness of the Milky Way galaxy does not even begin to quantify the difference between God and man. How can the finite ever truly grasp the infinite?

Is. 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Not only are we never going to be able to truly know all that God knows, we are never going to be able to know in the way that God knows things. In other words, when God knows something He understands all of it. For Himself, He knows Himself completely and in absolute perfection. When He knows something about you or me, or anything He created, He knows it as the perfect Creator.

In salvation, we do come to know God (John 17:3; Gal. 4:8-9). God has made Himself known to us. He reveals Himself to us in the Son, Jesus Christ. In salvation, the knowledge of God in the gospel is given to us through the Holy Spirit. We come to have fellowship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 1:9; 1 John 1:6-7). We do know God.

When we know God, it is not that we merely know less about God than God knows about Himself, we also know God is a different capacity than God knows Himself. The finite cannot contain the infinite. We can only ever know God as a creature knows the Creator. God always knows us as the Creator; He knows Himself in infinite perfection. We will never attain to God’s level. The difference between how God knows something and how I know something is not simply a difference of quantity (i.e. God simply knows more) but also a difference of quality (i.e. God knows as the originator of knowledge). We can only know things as image bearers.

Psa. 25:14The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

Psa. 36:9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.

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