What or who is God?

One who embarks on a spiritual journey is constantly evolving, and he becomes aware of two contrasting facts over time: not the ultimate is distant and yet near. First, he experiences more and more that God is a mystery. He is entirely different, holy, invisible, incomprehensible, utterly transcendent, in all words, beyond the possibility of understanding. “A child just born,” writes the Roman Catholic writer Georg e Tyrrel “knows as much about the world and its ways as the most – wisest among us can know of God and the..who rules over heaven and earth, time and eternity.” A Christian living in the Orthodox tradition will be completely comfortable with this agreement. The Greek Fathers pointed out, “The God we can understand is not God.” For the God whom we would dare to comprehend exhaustively through the use of our reason will be nothing more but an idol, a thing of our imagination. Such a God is totally unlike the true and living God of the Bible. Man is made in the image of God, not in the image of God.
And then it is also essential that this God of mystery is still uniquely open to us, filling all thought. And always present in us, around us, and with us. We are not offered only in the atmosphere or by his power, but personally. God, who is infinitely beyond our understanding, is with us. He calls each of us by name, and we between the transcendent God and us is a relationship of love, similar to each of us to those dear to us. We know other people only through our love for them and through their love for us. The latter is also …with God. In the words of Nicholas Kabbalah..: God, our King, is more loving than any friend, more just than any ruler, more loving than a father, more a part of ourselves than our members, and more indispensable to us than our hearts.
These are, then, the two poles of the human experience of the divine. God is more distant and closer to us than anything, and paradoxically, we discover that these two poles are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more we are attracted to one, the more clearly we are aware of another. As we follow this path, we discover that God is becoming more and more intimate, but also more distant, more familiar, and more unfamiliar – familiar to a small child, not understood.
To the most brilliant theologians. God dwells in inaccessible light, and the man stands in his presence with loving confidence and addresses him as a friend. God is both the end of things and their beginning. He is the open arms that welcome us at the end of the pilgrimage and the companion who walks to guide us every step of the way. As Nicholas Kabasila describes, “God is the shelter in which we rest at night and the final destination of our journey.” God is a mystery, yet a person: look at these facts.