So to whom will you compare me, the Incomparable? Can you picture me without reducing me? Isaiah 46:5a (MSG)
No. That's the answer to God's rhetorical question. We can't picture Him without reducing him. Human metaphors catch a part of the picture, but only a fraction of His person. The only way God could be embodied was for Him to reduce Himself in the form of Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross! Philippians 2:6-8 (NIV)
Just when you think you've finally got a handle on God, you find that God is infinitely bigger than your handle.
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