How Do We Know What God Is Like?

a friend's song at the door... (Tune: "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush..")

"How do we know what God is like?

 God is like..
 God is like..
 How do we know what God is like?
...We know because he tells us.."

I couldn't get it out of my mind....
& it got me thinking...

(But if when he tells us, we haven't learnt yet to trust his words, all is not lost.. 
there is still his voice in his all-of-life WORD to us )

1) ...We look around at his world (& try to gain understanding) (Ps 29; Prov 20:12; )

2) ...We see him in relationships with others.. (primarily in good, true and loving actions and body language, Jn 10:37f, Ps82; Prov20:11; 1Cor3v9; 2Cor4:7-11; Eph5:1; the record of some of these relationships is in the scriptures)

3) ...We look at the (highest and best) longings in us.. (Gen 1,2,5; Ps 82; 2Cor4:7-11; Rom 7 n 8)

4) ...We look in the face of Jesus.. 2Cor 4:4b-6; Heb 1:1-3a)
(And who-wee, here it starts blowing out!..)