What is God Like?

The question is often asked, "what is God like?" The Bible simply states that GOD IS. The Bible itself does not argue the point. The first words in Genesis are "In the beginning—God." This is not God’s beginning, this is man’s beginning. This is the beginning of Creation and time. God always has been; He always will be! His eternal existence is powerfully expressed in two words: God IS. Look at Hebrews 11:6 (NASB) "And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that HE IS…"

‘God Is’ can also be translated ‘God Exists’. God exists before time, He will exist forever. Now, I am very finite. I cannot think much before ‘time’. I always come to a wall, or beginning. But God always existed. Here is where faith accepts what we cannot understand.


God is incomprehensible, so why should I say that if I cannot understand it that it cannot be so. Here is what A.W.Tozer says about it: "When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not-God as the raw material for our minds to work on. Hence, whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand."

How then can we know God? The Bible says simply "through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Matthew 11:27). Jesus said of Himself in John 14:9: "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father…"

God in His love, however, has declared certain things to be true about Himself. These are called Attributes, which I wrote about in 2009, October through December. To name a few: Love, Goodness, Faithfulness, Justice, Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipotent. Because He is God, He is all of each one of these. He is not more of one or less of another, but all, of all of His Attributes.

Sovereign Father, heavenly King,
Thee we now presume to sing;
Glad thine Attributes confess,
Glorious all, and numberless.
--By Charles Wesley

Prayer: Oh Lord, Our Almighty God, Help us to realize that you are beyond our understanding. You are such a great and awesome God. How can we ever know the fullness of who You are? Open our eyes to see new truths as we worship and Praise you.
In Jesus’ name, Amen