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of God. For instance, they would show him a totem pole with an inscription that represented God the Father, and then another set of inscriptions that represented His Son and the Spirit of that God. This missionary wrote that God seems to have inscribed eternity in the human heart. (Not that this means all people are saved. No one can be saved unless they have given their lives to Jesus.) I think we can agree that everyone knows there’s something bigger out there, even if we don’t know His name. Sometimes we call it the God-sized hole in the human heart.
    God has also revealed Himself in the commentaries of history. In every culture we can see how God’s hand has been working in the affairs of human history orchestrating a progressive direction for civilization. Of course, God reveals Himself through the pages of His Divine Word.
    When you open it, the words jump off the pages and they tell you about God. He remains unknowable; but even so, He reveals Himself in particular through His Son, Jesus Christ, who said, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9 NRSV).
    HIS WAYS ARE FAR ABOVE OUR WAYS
    So we find ourselves in a contradictory position: we seek a God who wants to make Himself known to us; and, yet, He is One who will always remain unknowable—too big for us to understand. So many things will always remain beyond our full comprehension.
    Take the Trinity, for example: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit who are three distinct Persons, yet one. We are familiar with the attempts to explain this. “Well, He’s like water, which can be a liquid, a frozen solid, and a vapor. Its three distinct forms.” Or, “He’s like an egg, with the shell, the white and the yoke. All three of them make up one egg.” These are just fallible human attempts to understand an eternal God who cannot be explained.
    Here is another example of how God exceeds our comprehension. The book of Ezekiel portrays Him as having four faces—the face of a lion, the face of a man, the face of an ox, and the face of an eagle—and each face represents a different part of His nature. There’s more. With four faces, one on each side, God has no back! This shows us why you cannot back God into a corner, and why regardless of which direction you go, He’s always going forward. God is so vast that you and I will spend an eternity discovering His limitlessness, and we will never have to look over the same part of Him twice. Even in Heaven, every time we will look at Him, we will notice a different facet of His grace.
    JOB USED TO THINK HE KNEW GOD
    At the root, I believe this was Job’s conflict. He was a godly man, and he thought he understood God; but when God allowed Job’s life to fall apart, Job found out that he didn’t know his God after all. His circumstances didn’t seem to be lining up within the parameters of his theological understanding of God. He found himself in a monumental conflict. It’s a good thing that God put the book of Job in the Bible so we could learn an important perspective.
    Just for a quick review: the first attack came against his family, and we read about it in chapter one. A tornado knocked down the house, killing all of his young adult children who were inside. When he heard the devastating news, Job stood firm in his faith. Then in chapter two, Job was stricken with painful boils from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. All he could do was sit in one place, scraping at his skin with a potsherd, a piece of broken pottery. His suffering was almost impossible to watch. As a result, his wife began to crack. She told him, “Job, curse God so He’ll kill you, and you can die” (see Job 2:9). The Bible says that in all of this, Job didn’t sin. In fact, Job observed that we humans seem to be better able to accept good from God than bad. We want to be blessed, but we don’t want to have trouble. (This sounds like many Christians I know.)
    Along came Job’s three friends,