God is
amazing and awesome to experience. Beyond mere minds of mortals, He is
unfathomable.
August’s Awakening, Day 25
Today
we will begin looking at the eleven attributes of God as He relates to time and
space—light, unity and trinity, eternity,
immensity, self-existence (aseity), perfection,
solitary, supremacy, transcendence/ineffability,
immanence, and personality.
Light. The first thing God created was
light, but God Himself is described as light, the Great Illuminator of all
things, and within Him there is no darkness, just a purity as light.
In him was life, and that life was the
light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has
not overcome it. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into
the world. John 1:4–5, 9 NIV
When Jesus spoke again to the people,
he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in
darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12 NIV
For God, who said, “Let light shine out
of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the
knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6 NIV
Unity and Trinity. God is a unity—one
essence of being. God is also a trinity as three distinct persons—God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. A difficult concept to
comprehend, yet that is precisely what God is.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the
Lord is one. Deuteronomy
6:4 NIV
yet for us there is but one God, the
Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one
Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. 1 Corinthians 8:6 NIV
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went
up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of
God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said,
“This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:16–17 NIV
Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, Matthew
28:19 NIV
Eternity. God is free from the
succession of time. He is the creator of time, and hence not bound by time in
any way. He is simultaneously cognizant of all facts, events, and details of
what we call past, present, and future, yet He can also freely interact within
time itself while still residing outside time’s boundaries and limitations.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in
Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God. Genesis 21:33 NIV
Before the mountains were born or you
brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2 NIV
Tomorrow
we continue our study of the attributes of God. You should be gaining a greater
knowledge and appreciation each day for who our awesome God is.
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