"The intelect knoweth that it is ignorant of Thee, because it knoweth Thou canst not be known, unless the unknowable could be known, and the invisible beheld, and the inaccessible attained." Nicholas of Cusa said this. If you don't follow his old english wording he's pretty much saying that humanity knows (or should know) that the image and true heart of God our creator, can't really be attained by our finite minds as humans. We can't really understand who God truly is unless the things that are unknowable could be known etc.. one of my favorite pastors, Darryl DelHousaye said last night in a sermon, "I can't trust what I don't know" and "I can't trust whom I don't know." Saying that, we cannot trust and have faith in Christ's commandments and teachings if we do not study them and know them in our hearts, and we cannot trust this God who is spoken of if we do not know Him and seek at least to try and understand Him. Why would we trust someone whom is unknown? Why would we have faith in the teachings of a man named Jesus whom we have not taken the time to grow intimately close with?
Nocholas goes on to say this, "If anyone should set forth any concept by which Thou canst be conceived, I know that that concept is not a concept of Thee, for every concept is ended in the wall of Paradise....So too, if any were to tell of the understanding of Thee, wishing to supply a means whereby Thou mightest be understood, this man is yet far from Thee....forasmuch as Thou art absolute above all the concepts which any man can frame."
Ya might need to read it again, it's all good, so did I. Anyway, this pretty much all saying, in order to trust God and put our lives in His hands and worship Him intimately and live solely and fervently for Him, we must search to know Him as He truly is. We must request of Him to allow us to be brought into the presence of The Holy Spirit and thrive off of that existence and rest in the knowledge of His Spirit. We must know His commands to trust Him, and we must know Him to have faith in Him.
**1 John 1**
1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4We write this to make our[a] joy complete.
5This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all[b] sin.
8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
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