most demanding task, for there is always mystery in personal being, even of a single human child, much more of the sovereign God, who is eternally three in one! But this generous God, who chooses not to be without us, has created us so that we may know him in supremely happy fellowship with him (John 17:3). It is in his written Word that we find the character and personal qualities of the God who chooses to reveal himself most clearly and authoritatively expressed. Hence, all that is to be said in