God and a treasure map

My pastor gave a sermon this past Sunday entitled, "Curios Case of Love." One of his sermon points was "God is love," from 1John 4:8 which says, "The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." He went on to say that we can't base our entire view of the character of God by only one of his attributes, such as love; this would not be an accurate frame of reference in which to base our understanding of God.

For the Bible also says that God is spirit: John 4:24 "God is spirit and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
God is light:  1John 1:5 "This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all."
God is a consuming fire: Deuteronomy 4:24 "For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God."

My pastor likened these other "God is" statements as lenses, such as when getting an eye exam, through which we must also view God and it made me think of the movie National Treasure. I thought of the scene where the treasure hunters find Benjamin Franklins glasses that have different colored lenses. The lenses had a swivel so you could move them up or down, thus forming the key/ color through which to view the invisible treasure map.

So if we take the lens of Love, Spirit, Light and Fire and put the each of them on a different "colored lens"- and try to look through this new multi-lens frame in order to gain understanding into the character of God- I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around what I would see. God certainly reveals who He is to us in different ways. And sometimes it's easy to understand Him. Often for me, it isn't. I wonder if it is because only when I view him through all of the lenses will the mysteries of His treasure reveal themselves to me. And I wonder if my treasure map looks different from yours. But what I do know is that it could be dangerous to use only one lens. And that without any at all, our treasure map isn't revealed at all and our journey is in vain.