God is so other than us!!! We can’t fathom His thinking, because He is other than us!! We can only know Him through revelation. Scripture says for us to know Him, He must first draw us. That’s my paraphrase, but if you read the actual scripture, I don’t think you will argue with me. All that we know of Him is because He revealed Himself to us.
I get lost, in a good way, when I think of how He loves us!!! Most of us know the theology that when the Father looks at us He sees Jesus, but we don’t see ourselves that way. We struggle to embrace the new creation we are; blameless and spotless before Him (The spotless Lamb).
Scripture says that we are continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord. The language there actually means we are the mirror. When God looks at us He literally sees Jesus!! We are in Jesus. We stand in all that He is. It’s a free not earned gift. How can this be? It is so GREAT a LOVE. It’s completely other than us!! He knew we could not save ourselves. That’s why He did it for us.
TC