The lesson opens with God’s name, “I AM WHO I AM”: He is the uncreated, self-existent and sovereign Lord, and all created being reveals Him, but nothing defines Him. It then asks how finite man, with limited understanding and a mind bound to the material world, can know the infinite God. Scripture answers that His understanding is unsearchable and His thoughts and ways are higher than ours. To grasp Him exhaustively would require a mind equal to God.
Yet God is not unknown. For a finite creature to know God, God must reveal Himself, and by faith we receive that revelation and know Him truly on a finite level. The study points to the testimony of Jesus, and to what God has revealed of Himself: God is spirit, God is light, and God cannot be contained in any house made by human hands.