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How Jesus Reveals What God Is Like

What family member gives us an idea of what God is like?

“Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?”
—Malachi 2:10.

In the Bible God repeatedly speaks of Himself as a father.

Some of the father images we see today are anything but desirable. There are neglectful dads, dead-beat dads, abusive dads. God is not like that. Rather, He is a caring, sensitive Father. He is the kind of Dad who loves to spend time with his son or daughter, the kind of Dad who charms his kids by telling wonderful bedtime stories.

God, our loving Father, wanted to do more than reveal Himself through the words of Scripture. He knew that a person we live with is much more real to us than someone we only hear about or read about in a book. So He decided to enter our world as a real, specific individual.

God came down on our level – He became like us – so He could teach us how to live and be happy, and so we could see what God is really like.