What is God like?

A man who had been blind from birth once asked someone to give him a glass of milk and queried, “What does milk look like?” The other man answered, “Milk is a white liquid”. The blind man asked, “But what do you mean by white?” The other man answered, “White is the colour of a swan”. The blind man asked, “What is a swan?” The other replied, “A swan is a bird with a bent neck”. The blind man asked again, “What does bent mean?” The other man said, “I will bend my elbow and you will touch it, and then you will know what bent means”.

The blind man touched the bent elbow of the other man and said, “Now I know what milk looks like!”

In a book, even in the Bible, only words can be used to tell about God. These might seem ridiculous to you, as it seems ridiculous for a blind man to know the appearance of milk from a bent elbow. But we are all very limited and by nature blind to the all- comprehensive, omniscient, omnipotent God. We come to know Him by approximations. Read the words, forget about them, look at the ear, the dandelion, the bumble bee, and simply believe that God is!

By,
RSV RAJ