What is your View of God?
Is God reliable or rigid and strict? Are you afraid of him or comfortable in his presence? Is he rigid & strict or adaptable? Is he approachable or unreachable? Is he a loving father or detached? Is he passive or very connected to you? Is he an angry judge or one who judges justly? Is he rule-based or grace based? Is he approachable or distant? Is he safe or unsafe to you? Is he hands-off or very close? Below is what the Bible says about God.
Characteristic | Meaning | Scripture |
Immutable | He never differs from himself; He changes not | Mal. 3:6 |
Infinite | He’s Limitless | Ps. 147:5 |
Everlasting | No beginning, no end; time is different with God | Ps. 90:2 |
Omniscient | He possesses perfect knowledge | I Sam. 2:3 KJV |
Omnipotent | He has all power, limitless | Rev. 19:6 KJV |
Transcendent | He is exalted far above the created universe | Ps. 57:5 |
Faithful | He will always do what he says and will be true to His Word | Lam. 3:23 |
Good | Kind, benevolent, bestows blessings and shows loving kindness | Ps.27:13 |
Just | Righteous, but acts with justice | II Thess. 1:6 |
Omnipresent | God is everywhere present; always near us | Ps. 119:151 |
Infinite | His being knows no limits | Ps. 147:5 |
Merciful | Actively compassionate | Dan. 9:9 |
Gracious | God of grace; goodness of God directed toward human debt | II Chron. 30:9 |
Love | Takes pleasure in, enjoys; active, creative, personal, intimate, and unconditional | Ps. 36:7 |
Holy | Infinite, incomprehensible; fullness of purity | Ps. 99:3, Isa. 6:3 |
Sovereign | He rules; universal authority | Isa. 40:10 |