What is God?

God is a spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.

I have always loved this Shorter Catechism answer to the question ‘What is God?’ It is the most fundamental question we can ask, and the answer is appropriately dense with valuable things to ponder.

This short list of God’s attributes provides rich ground for meditation. It provides comfort in the apparent chaos that haunts our days. I have spent many years learning about Him and, blessed with more, will learn further… and if I leave this world old and full of wrinkles (me, not the world) I will have barely scratched the surface of who He is and what He is like.

I am so grateful that He chose to reveal Himself through creation, His word, and especially through Jesus — Emmanuel, ‘God with us.’

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