God Attributes, From Mom,

God's Attributes

Attribute-inherent character of a person or being.

He is: holy, almighty, righteous, pure, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-wise.  To fear (reverential awe) the Lord is to recognize God's attributes.   When I regard God correctly, I gain a clearer picture of myself--sinful, weak, frail, needy.  When I recognize who God is and who I am, I will fall at His feet in humble respect.  Only then will He show me how to choose His way.   To revere God is to hold Him in highest honor.  God offers me intimate and lasting friendship when I revere Him.

Love.  Holiness. Constancy.  Justice.  Truth.  Eternal.  All-knowing.  All-present.  All-powerful. God's attributes, as revealed in the Bible.

Spirit- John 4:24  For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
Changeless- Hebrews 1:12  You will fold them up like a cloak and discard them like old clothing.
But you are always the same; you will live forever.”
All-Powerful- Genesis 18:14   Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”   Isaiah 40:28  Have you never heard?  Have you never understood?  The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth.  He never grows weak or weary.  No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
All-Knowing- Job 31:16  Do you understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill?  Psalm 147:5  How great is our Lord! His power is absolute!  His understanding is beyond comprehension!  Romans ll:33-36  Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!  For who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to give him advice?  And who has given him so much that he needs to pay it back?
Everywhere- Genesis 18:25  Surely you wouldn’t do such a thing, destroying the righteous along with the wicked. Why, you would be treating the righteous and the wicked exactly the same! Surely you wouldn’t do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”  Psalm 139:7-12   I can never escape from your Spirit!  I can never get away from your presence!  If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave,you are there.  If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.  I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.  To you the night shines as bright as day.  Darkness and light are the same to you.
Eternal- 2 Peter 3:8   But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.  Revelation 1:8  “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,”says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.”  

From me:

Reading over these verse was inspiring for me.  I tend to lose sight of God's amazing awesomeness in the everyday mess of living.  I forget His greatness, and be inclined to treat God as common in my interactions with Him.  So I needed this today.  I need the reminder of  Who He is.  So, I guess in typing out Mom's journal entry today, I had a most necessary God visit!

Lord, You are so much higher, so much greater and just so much.....more than I can ever think, ever imagine.  Forgive me for the times I forget that and treat You with commonality, disrespect and even a contemptuous attitude (like when I don't get my own way). I question all too often, Your care, Your ways, Your love.  Yes, You are my intimate friend, my loving Daddy, and sweet, sweet Savior.  But You are also the Almighty God, Creator and Sustainer of the universe, holy and fearsome.  Keep me, keep each of us in balance.  Let all creation praise You!


Remember  and meditate on who God is today!  Reverence Him!