How then can we know anything about God, let alone where He dwells? We cannot unless God tells us. We are like the insect trying to understand the ways of humanity. They can see the works of humans and make use of their accomplishments, but they cannot comprehend us, because our ways are so different from theirs. If one of us could become an insect and learn their ways, then, in some limited way we might communicate to them what we are like and what our ways are. But even then, most of the complexity of humanity is incomprehensible to the insect world. So it is with us and God.
We can understand some of God, but only that which He explained to us. Perhaps that understanding is finite and less than we desire, but nothing else can accurately be explained. We must remain with the limited explanations the word of God gives us. If we go beyond that, we wander into speculation and assumptions about what cannot be known is the same as idiocy.
“O Majesty unspeakable, my soul desires to behold Thee. I cry to Thee from the dust. Yet when I inquire after Thy name it is secret. Thou art hidden in the light which no man can approach unto. Therefore, I pray, whatever of Thyself Thou hast been pleased to disclose, help me to search out as treasure more precious than rubies.” -A.W. Tozer
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