Excerpts from Bavink's Reformed Dogmatics vol.2: We can truly know God.

It is so encouraging to realize that God is infinite.  He is not like us humans, finite and limited.  So he is completely trustworthy and able to care for his creation.  What is also encouraging is though he is infinite and we cannot therefore never know God in the fullness of his awesome perfection, we can still know truly know him and fellowship with him.  In grace he reveals himself to us.  This is gospel.  Bavink explained it this way…

God Almighty is truly incomprehensible.  "The distance between God and us is the gulf between the Infinite and the finite, between eternity and time, between being and becoming, between the All and the nothing" (Page 30).  Yes, he is infinitely exalted above us and we will never know the fullness of the glory of God.  However, this does not mean we cannot truly know God.  Scripture teaches the incomprehensibility of God... "His ways are past finding out" (Is 40:13; 1 Cor 2:16).  However, the bible also sets "forth a doctrine of God that fully upholds his knowability...In Scripture the knowability of God is never in doubt even for a moment (Is 40:26; acts 14:27; Rom 1:19-20; Jn 17:3; 20:31).  The purpose of God's revelation, according to Scripture, is precisely that human beings may know God and so receive eternal life" (Page 30).

Excerpts from Bavink's Reformed Dogmatics vol.2: The Centre of all dogmatics - God.

The great and all pervasive subject of church dogmatics, sermons, and theology is and always must be God himself.  Herman Bavink makes this point right out of the gate in volume 2 of his Reformed Dogmatics.  He says…

“All the doctrine treated in dogmatics, in sermons, or in other theological treatises, whether they concern the universe, humanity, Christ, and so forth - are but the explication of the one central dogma of the knowledge of God.  All things are considered in light of God, subsumed under him, traced back to him as the starting point....this has practical usefulness in life...the more (we) reflect on God, the knowledge of whom is its (dogma, theology, sermons) only content, the more we will be moved to adoration and worship.  The fact is “The knowledge of God-in-Christ is life itself (Ps 89:16; Is 11:9; Jer 31:34; Jn 17:3).” (Page 29)