Let's Talk About the Attributes of God

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Permalink Reply by Margaret Okubo on August 31, 2014 at 8:15pm

Elohim. Three in one or Trinity. "Let us make man in our own image.(Genesis 1:26.

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Permalink Reply by Colby on September 1, 2014 at 12:16pm

Amen!

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the triune nature of God, is the key to understanding the nature of the one true and living God -- the God of Scripture.  

When we speak of the Holy Trinity, we are referring to the way that God has revealed himself to us.  The Trinity describes a God who is in perfect relationship.  

God reveals himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  We know that our limited and imperfect understanding of the Trinity is not the totality of who God is or what God does, but only our limited, human experience of God. We are in no position to limit God; to put God in a box. God is always much more than whatever our limited human understanding can grasp. 

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Permalink Reply by thewatchman on August 31, 2014 at 8:45pm

I was just watching the night's sky....it always has beautiful colors just before the sun goes down.  Then I was reminded of how the starry hosts, the trees, the flowers, and yes, even the rocks will cry out, the mountains, all of nature will praise the Lord but people....people will reject and lift a fist to their Creator, WOW.  

God's attributes - God is just.

For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in our bodies. ” (2 Corinthians 5:10)

• a day is fixed for His righteous judgment of the world (Acts 17:31)
• all sin is ultimately against a righteous God (Ps. 51:4)
• all God’s ways are righteous and deserve praise (Rev. 15:3)
• God alone is the judge (James 4:12)
• God judges all people with justice (Ps. 9:7-8)
• God’s law and judgments are completely righteous (Ps. 19:7-9)
• He exercises justice toward all humanity (Gen. 18:25)
• He is just in all His ways (Dent. 32:4)
• God rightly judges heart, mind and deeds (Jer. 17:10)
• Jesus, our righteous defender before the Father (1 John 2:1)
• the Messiah will judge all with complete justice (Isa. 11:4-5)
• the righteous Messiah will establish a righteous people (Jer. 33:16)
• the righteous God justifies those who believe in Jesus (Rom. 3:25-26)

http://www.josh.org/video-2/attributes-of-god/

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Permalink Reply by Margaret Okubo on August 31, 2014 at 9:13pm

We are so blessed to have such an awesome God.

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Permalink Reply by thewatchman on August 31, 2014 at 8:53pm

I love going through this one again.  It's important to place our thoughts in places of the higher courts.

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Permalink Reply by Colby on September 1, 2014 at 11:41am

LOVE.

          God is love.  God's nature as revealed in Jesus is to win us over with the power of love. God loves you and me right where we are, and just the way we are.  God longs to have his love, as incarnated in his son Christ, dwell in our hearts and reach out through our lives.

          I do not understand why God loves and then forgives me my many sins and I do not understand why God loves you and forgives you your sins.  And I certainly do not understand why God loves this world God has created. This side of heaven we will never fully understand that.  But God does love me as God loves you.  And God loves this world.  We know that because God became flesh in this world in the person of Jesus.  God has graced us in the birth of Jesus. 

          Jesus came to meet us where we are in the reality of our lives as they really are.  He came with a strong, clear message: God loves us and can't bear to see us separated from God and from one another.  So Jesus came that we might be reunited with God.   To do that, he had to go the cross.  It wasn’t glamorous or spectacular.  It was in the real life and death of Jesus that God revealed the most important message ever delivered to the human family.  And it was in the resurrection that the message was ratified for all eternity.

• Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  (1 Jn 4:8)
• We love because he first loved us. (1 Jn 4:19)
  
• For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  (Jn 3:16)
• But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Ro 5:8) 
• Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.  (1 Jn 4:7)
• For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ro 8:38-39)
  
• Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.  May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. (Eph 3:17-19)
  
• The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. (Lam 3:22-23)

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Permalink Reply by Margaret Okubo on September 1, 2014 at 11:54am

Amen. All Glory to God.

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