The Nature of God
An often asked question is "what is God like?" This is a legitimate question. Any attempt to describe God on the part of a human being is doomed to failure from the start. What we can do is tell you some of his characteristics.

To start with, God is omnipotent, which is to say he is all-powerful. This is a simple statement, but once applied to God it becomes something that is unimaginable in its application.

God is also omniscient. That tells us he knows everything. There is nothing hidden from him. He knows past, present, and future. You can not hide from him, and you can not hide anything from him. The Scriptures tell us he keeps track of the hairs on our head. When you comb your hair in the morning, do you count the hairs on the comb? He already has. There's no detail of your life that he does not already know, with one possible exception. The Bible tells us that when he forgives us, he totally forgets all of Our sin, and no one can bring it up before him or charge us before him. This is the truth that I cherish.

He is omnipresent. He's everywhere at all times. There is no time (past, present, and future) and no place at all that he is not now. That's a complicated statement and hard to understand since you and I are caught in the web of time and space. If I were to attempt to go beyond this I would be over my head, and so would you.

He created us, and we turned away from him. He loved us so much that he provided a way back to fellowship with him through the death of Christ on the cross of Calvary. He paid the supreme price by his death, and by paying the price he bought us.

We will see in the gospel John, he is also love. He is also our Judge.

In light of the above, he has every right to rule every aspect of our lives as Lord and King.

As we said in the first paragraph it is impossible to describe God in human terms, but if you will turn to the book of Isaiah starting about chapter 40 and going to about chapter 51, you will find much that God says about himself.