What Does God Look Like?

Deuteronomy 4:15 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb
out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,

     We often hear children ask, "What does God look like?" Even some adults ask this same question. It is a natural question asked from a very human perspective. We as human beings are very good at recognizing faces. It is one of the first things that infants learn. They recognize human faces. Then their caregivers face and voice. Then they begin to recognize other things.
     So if I am a human being, which I assure you I am, then recognizing God's face ought to be something I try to firmly plant in my brain. I wouldn't want to miss Him if I passed Him in WalMart!
     But one of the failures of so many people is that we try to boil God down to our size, something we can get our minds around. But God can't be boiled down. He is so far beyond anything we could ever comprehend that it is impossible for us to picture Him.
     And that is exactly what the Second Commandment is all about. Don't make an image of the LORD. So when Moses is giving his final words to the Israelites before they enter the Promised Land, he reinforces this commandment. He appeals to their firsthand knowledge. They had seen the fiery cloud when the LORD had spoken. But there was no discernible form to the person speaking.
     But even more importantly, all the other people groups around the Israelites had tried to boil down the LORD into representations of known objects. They made idols of animals & creatures in their attempts to capture the essence of the Creator. They carved images of the stars and other objects in the sky in hopes that they were capturing the Star Maker Himself.
     So Moses warns them not to try to reduce the LORD in any way.
     We can't reduce the LORD to an APP on our phone, a corner of our living space, an appointment on our calendar. We can't reduce Him. He owns it all. He is everywhere present. Nothing is hidden from Him. He even knows our hearts.