Who or what is God?

Often people ask me: “Who or what is God?” Yet more and more I find it quite a peculiar question.

Don't we simply know what we talk about when we're referring to God? Prophets and sages all throughout history have described in many different ways how we can see God. What they talk about, that is God.

Admittedly, prophets and sages have never provided us with a definition, but that's simply because it's not necessary at all.

We know what we talk about when we speak of love. We know what we talk about when we speak of justice. We know what we talk about when we speak of truth. And yet, we need no definition for any of them.

Each of these concepts are contained within God, and on top of it God is more than all of them together. It might make God complex and immense, but it doesn't make him less 'knowable' or 'apprehensible'. For even in all his 'undefinedness' God is not totally incomprehensible. And what we can comprehend of God is not just a vague and meaningless 'something'. On the contrary.

Just like you can see love between people, you can see God in people. Just like you can perceive justice in certain situations, you can perceive God in life. Just like you can grasp the truth, you can grasp God within your soul.

Why the need to define God more than other undefinable concepts? Why the need to always clarify God? If we can let love be love, why can't we let God be God?

God simply is God.

He is This. He is Him. He is the One who is.