One day a man was a little boy drawing a picture on a sheet of paper.
“What are you drawing?” the man asked curiously
“I’m drawing a picture of God,” Replied the little boy
“Nobody knows what God looks like, how could you draw a picture of Him?” demand the man.
“You will know when I’m finished,” in confident the boy answered him.
This little conversation is picturing the hunger of us all about getting to know God. What does He look like? Can we really draw our own portrait of Him?
Throughout the ages, some of the greatest minds have believed that humankind could experience something more only by finding God.
Blaise Pascal for example, he is a philosopher who added his voice to those who knew that only God can satisfy the human heart. He said that man tries ineffectually to fill the empty void of his soul by his surroundings. Man vainly searches, but finds nothing to help him, other than to see an infinite abyss that can only be filled by One who is Infinite and immutable. Man, in other words, can only be billed by God himself.
Centuries earlier, Augustine had said to God, “The though of you stirs him so deeply that he cannot be content unless he praises you, because you made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you. Obviously, Augustine wrote that from his experience. As a result of the prayers of his mother and the reading of Scripture, Augustine, an immoral hardened sinner, was soundly converted. And he discovered in God the answer for the restlessness within.
The Psalms give us the most eloquent description of this thirst of human soul. “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.” (Ps 42:1).
Mankind through the centuries has always sought God. However, in this pluralistic age, we must also ask, which God shall we seek? Where shall we find Him? And how shall we know that we have found Him?
