"All things are delivered unto Me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and He to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him" (Matthew 11:27).
The inability of the human mind to know God in a true and final sense is taken for granted throughout the Bible. God's nature is of another kind from anything with which the mind is acquainted; hence when the mind attempts to find out God it is confronted by obscurity. It is surrounded with mystery and blinded by the light no man can approach unto.
The Spirit of God is able to make the spirit of man know and experience the awesome mystery of God's essential being. It should be noted that the Spirit reveals God mo the spirit of man, not to his intellect merely. The intellect can know God's attributes because these constitute that body of truth that can be known "about" God The knowledge "of" God is for the spirit alone. Such knowledge comes not by intellection but by intuition.
To know God in the scriptural meaning of the term is to enter into experience of Him. It never means to know about. It is not a knowledge mediated by the intellect, but an unmediated awareness experienced by the soul on a plane too high for the mind to reach.
Thank you, Father, for the ministry of the Holy Spirit in revealing You to Your children. May I no longer simply know about You, but come to know You personally. Amen
~A. W. Tozer~
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