Who is God?

Psalm 46:10 says, "Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” What assurance there is in knowing who God is. For there is none like Him, there are no others that share his qualities and attributes. But, have you ever wondered, “Who is God?” This is essential for the Christian Religion, for if one worships a God he does not know, then he is probably worshiping an idea of God that he, himself, has created. This is not far from being an idol.

When searching Google for answers of who God is, you find that God is loving, caring, compassionate, graceful, and wants to be our friend. It cannot be denied that God does have these qualities, but to stop here is to merely glance at the moon and say, “It is white.” There is so much more to God then just love and kindness.

However, we often stop at this because other attributes are either not well known, so we have no desire to search for them, or controversial, in which case we have no desire to research them. Another factor that may stop us from searching after the attributes of God is that He cannot be fully known, meaning that we cannot fully comprehend Him. However, don’t let that stop you from learning who He is. Think of God as a Rainforest (However, this example doesn’t even begin to grasp the completely person of God). You search the Rainforest looking for new animals and different types of trees, but there is no possible way you can learn everything about everything. There is way too much to be known. Also, when one goes scuba diving, he knows that he will have to stop at some point, because the ocean is too big for one to completely comprehend everything that lives in it. As an astronomer looks through his telescope, he sees the galaxy. There is no way for him to completely understand how complex everything is, but he enjoys studying it and learning what he can.

There is no way to say God is 10 or 20 bigger than the ocean or the rainforest or the universe for God is outside of earthly scales. To say God is 1000x better is to put Him into a box where He can be no more better or bigger than 1000x. We must be satisfied by saying God is the greatest person, that the mind cannot even comprehend, but even in saying that, we are comparing God to all others, which does not give God full glory.

God is greater than the mind can comprehend. God is sovereign, meaning that He is all-powerful and able to do anything He desires without opposition. He is just and justifier, meaning that when we did not reach His perfection, He paid the price in our place, which to this day doesn’t fully make sense to me.

God is all knowing. He is life itself since all others have come from Him. He is timeless, for without that quality, He could not be the authority of creation, or even God.

This is just the surface – Forsake All