What does God wear? How do we see Him?

God has no body. He is Spirit, not bound by the physical things He has created.

Psalm 104 is a song about God’s creation of the world and the creatures in it. However, the song starts with God Himself in heaven. The psalm says that He is “clothed with splendor and majesty.” God is awe-inspiring in ways beyond words. The psalm also says that God “wraps himself in light as with a garment.” God appeared to Moses as a fiery bush, and Moses’ face shone with light after meeting with God. On the Damascus road, the apostle Paul encountered Jesus as a blinding light. When Jesus appeared to the apostle John in Revelation 1:12-16 (a vision similar to Daniel’s vision in Daniel 10:4-6), the details were symbolic, but the primary impression was of fire and light: “The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.”

Light brings truth, revelation, and life. Light was the foundation of creation in Genesis 1, where God first declared, “Let there be light.”

John reminds us that “No one has ever seen God” (1 John 4:12). John also said, “We know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2). Isaiah 61:10 declares, “I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness.”