Who is God?

When we think about God, we have a tendency to place Him in a box of our making. We think limited thoughts about Him when in fact He is unlimited.

Our minds simply cannot contain Him as He is infinite; He is endless; He is limitless. In I Kings 8:29 Solomon stated "...Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built."
In Psalm 145:5 the psalmist says: "I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your Majesty, and on Your wondrous works."

We say God is a mystery because we cannot understand His infinity. We must accept the things we do not understand by Faith. God has given us His Word to help us learn about God, and by searching God's Word we can find true facts about God called 'attributes'. An 'attribute' is a characteristic that is true about God and how He reveals Himself to us. Love, for instance is not a quality that may grow or diminish, but it is the way He is, as with all of His attributes. He IS Faithful; He IS Merciful; He IS immutable; He IS Holy.

A.W.Tozer, a noted Christian Author of some 50 or 60 years ago, states in his book "Knowledge of the Holy", that "The God we must learn to know is the Majesty in the heavens, God the Almighty Father, Maker of heaven and earth, the only wise God our Saviour. He it is that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, who stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out like a tent to dwell in..."

For the next few weeks I am going to meditate on God's attributes and perhaps by thinking about His attributes we can have a better concept of "Who God is".

1. Knowledge of the Holy by A.W.Tozer
2. God's Holy Word
3. From the heart of CC