By Emily Wooten
God discribes himself throughout the scriptures. It is God’s desire that we know him. His character is not hidden from us. He is omniscient: knowing everything. God is omnipresent: able to be anywhere and everywhere at the same time. He is omnipotent: having unlimited power, he is all powerful.
In Psalms 139 the psalmist declares God knew him before he was born, knows when he comes in and goes out. He said there was no place where he would be lost to God.
God is and was and is to come and makes himself and his resources available to those who choose to take him at his word and do it.
Exodus 3 when God was speaking to the human Moses about the children of Israel, he declared himself to be I Am that I Am.
This speaks of his existence beyond the understanding of time and reminds them who he was to their fathers while pointing to who he will be to them in the future. We know that he created the earth and all that is in it and believe before time was, he was.
In Revelations 1:8 God declares himself to be the beginning and the end, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
In Exodus 2:4 the name for God is Lord, Jehovah: the existing one.
In Genesis 1:1 the name of God is Elohim. He is mighty rulers. The word is both singular and plural. We see God, the one God, existing in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which is three.
In Joshua 3:11 he is Adon which means Lord.
In Exodus 6:6 he is Shaddai, the Almighty.
In 2 Kings 20:5 he declares himself to be Rapha.
Our God is Jehovah Rapha or the God in whom healing and restoration exist. God has made himself known as our banner, shepherd, peace, provider, and more.
In Psalms 91 God is identified as Elyon: Most High, Shaddi: Almighty, Jehovah: The Existing One, Machaseh: Shelter, Matsud: Fortress, Eloheem: rulers, shield and covering.
In Matthew 1:26 and Isaiah 7:14 he is Emmanuel and Immanuel: God With Us.
In Jeremiah 23:6 he is Jehovah Tsidqenu, The Lord our righteousness.
He is ever watching over humans to perform his word in them as they by faith take his provision.
2 Chronicles 16:9 The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in behalf of them whose heart is perfect (or whole) toward him.
God is our champion and God is holy. We must recognize that he is altogether right in everything. God is our covenant Friend, Father, and Comforter. The Almighty, the self-existing one who is Love, loves humans.
In order for a human to love someone the way God loves, that human has to look beyond physical or material attributes to the spirit and soul of a human.
Romans 5:5 tells us the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
Romans 5:8 says while we were sinners, Christ died for us.
God’s love reached beyond human faults. By faith God sees in humans something redeemable. By faith, Love sees what humans can be and extends himself to help them.
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Our understanding of the word love has been diminished by commercialization. The God kind of love is a force. That force compelled God to send his son Jesus to be punished and suffer death to save humans and reconcile fellowship with humans. Humans were ransomed, delivered and restored. That same love caused Jesus, who is God to lay aside his position of authority as God. He endured a human body, suffered, and died, knowing he would have to go to hell to defeat the devil, release those held captive and be resurrected. That was all nasty, disgusting work but necessary for our redemption.
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