God is love and His love is very different from human love. God’s love is unconditional, and it’s not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn’t love us because we’re lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with him, and He sacrificed His own Son (who also willingly died for us) to restore that relationship. (John 3:16) God Is Personal. God is not a ‘thing’, power, or influence. He thinks, feel desires and acts in ways that show Him to be a living personal Being.
The Lord is the true God; He is the living God, the eternal King. (Jeremiah 10:10) God is one. There is only one true God. He says I am the first and the last; apart from me there is no God. (Isaiah 44:6) yet God has revealed himself as a ‘trinity’ of three Persons – the Father, the son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit each of whom is truly, fully and equally God. The Bible speaks of the glory of God the Father; (Philippians 2:11) it says that the Word (Jesus Christ) was God; (John 1:1) and it speaks of the Lord, who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18) While there is only one God, there are three persons in the Godhead. God is Spirit. He has no physical dimensions. He does not have a body, nor does he have any characteristics that can be defined in terms of size and shape. God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24) This means that God is invisible. No one has ever seen God. (John 1:18) It also means that he is not confined to one place at a time, but is everywhere all the time: ‘Do I not fill heaven and earth?’ declares the Lord.
(Jeremiah 23:24) God is Eternal. God has no beginning. In the Bible’s words from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (Psalm 90:2) There never was a time when God did not exist and there never will be a time when he will not exist. God describes himself as the one who is, and who was, and who is to come. (Revelation 1:8) And he remains eternally the same: I the Lord do not change. (Malachi 3:6)
All that God ever was He still is and always will be. God is Independent. Every other living being is dependent on people or things, and ultimately on God – but God is totally independent of his creation.
He can survive on his own. He is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. (Acts 17:25) God is Holy. He is majestic in holiness, awesome in glory. (Exodus 15:11) There can be no comparison with the holiness of God. There is no one holy like the Lord, (1 Samuel 2:2) who is utterly without fault or defect. The Bible says of him, your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. (Habakkuk 1:13) And this holy God demands holiness from every one of us. His command to us today is: Be holy, because I am holy. (1 Peter 1:16)
God is Just. The Bible says that the Lord is a God of justice and that righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. (Isaiah 30:18; Psalm 97:2) God is not only our Creator and Sustainer; He is also our judge rewarding and punishing, in time and eternity, with a justice that is perfect and beyond any appeal or dispute. God is perfect. His knowledge is perfect. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and lay bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:13) God knows everything in the past, present and future, including all our thoughts, words and deeds. His wisdom is perfect and utterly beyond our understanding. Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!