The answer is that He will be found to be exactly like Jesus. "He that hath seen me," said Jesus, "hath seen the Father." Christ walked with men on earth that He might show them what God is like and make known the true nature of God to a race that had wrong ideas about Him. This was only one of the things He did while here in the flesh, but this He did with beautiful perfection.
From Him we learn how God acts toward people. The hypocritical, the basically insincere, will find Him cold and aloof, as the once found Jesus; but the penitent will find Him merciful; the self-condemned will find Him generous and kind. To the frightened He is friendly, to the poor in spirit He is forgiving, to the ignorant, considerate; to the weak, gentle; to the stranger, hospitable.
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If you haven't read The Knowledge of the Holy by AW Tozer...you should.
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I have a couple of pertinent quotes that I have recently come across. The first is from the novel Demons by Dostoevsky: ’Christ, incidentally, will not forgive,’ Stavrogin asked, and a light irony could be heard in the tone of the question, ‘for it is said in the book, ‘whoso shall offend one of these little ones’ --remember? According to the Gospel there is not and cannot be any greater crime. In this book!’
‘I have glad tidings for you about that.’ Tikhon spoke with tender feeling, ‘Christ, too, will forgive, if only you attain to forgiving yourself . . . Oh, no, no, do not believe I have spoken a blasphemy: even if you do not attain to reconciliation with yourself and forgiveness of yourself, even He will forgive you for your intention and for your great suffering . . . Forthere are no words or thoughts in human language to express all the ways and reasons of the Lamb, ‘until his ways are openly revealed to us.’ Who can embrace him who is unembraceable, who can grasp the whole of him who is infinite!’
From C. S. Lewis: God is not proud ... He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
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