Denny answers:
“I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me” (Isaiah 46:9b).
Because God is altogether greater than us, we cannot know exactly what He is like. All we see in this world are created things, but God is the Creator of the heavens and earth. Everything else had a beginning, but God has always been (Psalm 90:2).
Creation—the stars, the mountains, the flowers—tells us there is a God Who is eternal, powerful, and wise (Romans 1:20). But creation is not enough to know what God is like. Thankfully, God tells us what He is like in the Bible.
In God’s Word the Bible, we find out . . .
• God is sovereign. That means God rules over all and has all power to do exactly as He desires: “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please” (Isaiah 46:9b-10).
• God is all-wise: “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!" (Romans 11:33).
• God is holy (one of a kind, perfect, separate from sin): “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory” (Isaiah 6:3b). “You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil; with you the wicked cannot dwell” (Psalm 5:4).
• God is just. Being holy, God cannot stand sin. Being just, God will punish sinners: “But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God ‘will give to each person according to what he has done’” (Romans 2:5).
• God is love: “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!” (Romans 5:8-9).
Keep reading the Bible to find out what God is like. Perhaps you can take a yellow highlighter during your daily Bible reading to highlight verses that tell you what God is like. As you learn about God, you don’t have to worry about Him changing. “I the Lord do not change” (Malachi 3:6a). What God is like—holy, just, loving—is always the same!
Bible Truth
- “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened” (Romans 1:20-21).
- “When you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe” (1 Thessalonians 2:13b).
- Jesus said: “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3).
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