What Does God Look Like?

The Common View

Our education, literature, movies (and even occasionally cartoons) reference God as a huge distant being, with super sight and super hearing, with the ability to monitor multiple incidents at once.

Our brain always imagines God as a centralized being, just like each one of us (or creations in this universe) is centralized, existing physically at one place, not multiple.

What Does God Really Look Like

That is the extent of how our brain can comprehend such a power. But in reality, what God looks like, is something beyond what our brain can handle, no matter how far your imagination goes.

God is not like that.

God is decentralized, existing at the electron level, and even deeper. He’s present everywhere in the universe, knowing what’s going on in your intestines, in your mind, and details of each polar bear in Antarctica, as well as every atom of each comet or star millions of kilometers wide flying through space. He knows the details of each cell of deep sea creatures unknown to man, and their thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Nothing slips his knowledge. If you want to find a place that is out of God’s scope, think of a place with no electrons or matter.

We’re referencing electrons just to be able to relate. But God extends beyond time and space. He is there, aware of everything and everyone, knowing your very thoughts while you’re reading this.

Words that we’re using to help us describe him, such as “knowledge”, “knowing”, “he” automatically shifts our brain to reference a centralized being. But we must understand that those are the limits of our language, and we're merely using words that are available to us.

Physical laws and chemical reactions that we have grew up knowing are put by God. Why do two Hydrogen atoms and an Oxygen atom miraculously give a water atom that is crucial for our survival. We take these fundamental laws for granted, but it is God who put these laws into existence from nothing.

We are talking about a being that is extremely powerful and mighty and we’re living in his world under his rules and mercy.

He didn’t just create you flesh and blood. But he created the “you”. That pure conscious part that thinks, has thoughts, values right from wrong, and reaches decisions.

Our minds will never comprehend what God looks like; it extends our brains' limits. But if you ponder and think hard about the above, you will start feeling a glimpse of the immense power that we’re talking about. And you will start to realize that there is nothing like him that can be used as a reference in your brain.

It is worth noting that the above is how Islam depicts God. It provides no physical descriptions but points out the following:

• He is One
• There is nothing like him
• He has no beginning and no end
• We will always underestimate him
• We have been given only little knowledge
• He has created what we don’t know

Whatever your background or religion is, you must appreciate this power and have a feeling of full surrender. You are a mere visitor in his magnificent perfect world.

Do not ever judge him. Our brain cannot even comprehend the nature of his existence, so how will you comprehend unseen worlds or the consequence of certain things or actions. You don’t know, and you don’t know that you don’t know!

What Does God Like?

• An awareness of his magnificence and power
• A feeling of love and appreciation for him
• Obedience and surrender

This makes you a man of God.