How Well Do We Know God?

Exodus 15:11...Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness. Fearful in praises, doing wonders?


As I sat and read this verse this morning in my meditations the thought came to me; How well do we know God? Granted seemingly we all have an element of knowledge when it comes to the character of God. Whether it is accurate knowledge is another question. But for many people much of the knowledge we possess was gained while growing up through the ranks of Sunday school, or some other sort of catechizing. But I guess for me the question that might need to be answered would be whether or not what we learned growing up is sufficient for the day or should we continue to increase in the depth of our understanding of this God who never changes? So with this thought in mind triggered by Ex 15:11 I thought that I might take some time and journey through the scriptures to gain more wisdom of the character of God. 


Who is like You o Lord among the gods...is a very peculiar way of speaking to God when Paul declared in 1 Cor 8:4...that there is no other God but one. But let us recognize that the question asked in Exodus is actually not a question of who rivals against the God of the Bible as it is an acknowledgement that there simply is no one like him in all of creation or existence, even though man in his depravity would like to create other gods which to worship. 


But this God - the One God - the only true God that exists, has since before the heavens existed, from before the earth and all that was formed in it, even before the existence of created angelic beings was then already - without anything else to compare Himself to, glorious in His holiness. This, beloved is something that I stumble over due to my limited reasoning. You see, God's character did not evolve as He put in place the heavens and the earth, His character did not become more loving or holier when He created angels or man for that matter. You see even when there was nothing - absolutely nothing at all in existence the glory of God shone forth into the deep cavities of nothingness declaring His perfect holiness. For you see this we can be sure of for we are reminded of the words of this great God in Malachi 3:6...For I am the Lord, I do not change. So does this give us great comfort or great fear?