What is God like?

6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

Most of our theology is anthropomorphic in thought. When we ask, "What is God Like?" we seek to assign something from our experience on earth, amplify it to the N'th degree, then think of God is that way. So we know from the Bible that God is good, we take an example of perceived human goodness like Mother Teresa, imagine someone a billion times better, and there we have it. But God is Holy, which means "other". Nothing in His creation can compare to Him. He is totally outside of our paradigms. 

Now, what He has desired men to know about Him, he has left recorded in the Bible. When Moses wanted to know His Name, His essential character, God passed by Moses, declaring, 

"The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 

7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. "

He wants us to know He is not petty. He does visit the sins of the fathers onto the children, because of the law of sowing and reaping, but He also invites the sinner to repent of his ways, and be reconciled back to Himself. He desires Mercy, not sacrifice, Mat 9:13. So God is good by a standard that the world cannot conceive of, because He is Holy, totally other, than anything we can see in the universe. So meditating on Him requires that "The eyes of our heart be opened", as nothing from our ordinary paradigm can help us. Jesus never said, "The Kingdom of Heaven IS . . . ", but the Kingdom of Heaven is like". Finding out what His Kingdom is like is finding Him.