Now that we have established that God is alive and above all, let’s look at some of His other attributes.
Truth defines God. Here is an excerpt from a Focus on the Family article.
What is truth? While this question is often presented as a deep philosophical puzzle suitable only for the “brainy” to tackle, the answer is not so complex. Truth is what corresponds to reality. Consequently, what is real is true, what is unreal is false.
The Bible makes some very distinctive truth claims. It claims, for instance, that God exists. It also claims that He has chosen to communicate with us through His creation, our moral conscience, and via the Bible. Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh and that the only way for human beings to be saved is through Him (John 14:6). Moreover, the death and resurrection of Jesus are also key to Christian theology.
These claims the Bible makes either correspond to reality or they do not. Christians believe that they do correspond to reality, meaning that the Bible is true. God really exists, Jesus is not a myth, and the resurrection really happened. (How do we know the Bible is true?)
Then the Lord passed by in front of him (Moses) and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth.
Psalm 108:3-4
I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples,
And I will sing praises to You among the nations.
For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens,
And Your truth reaches to the skies.
John 3:31-33
“He who comes from above is above all, he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. 32 What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony. 33 He who has received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true.”
Love defines God.
Love describes many things. We love sunny days and rain, iced tea and hot cocoa, football and hamburgers. We use the word love for so many things that sometimes love seems trivial.
In contrast, the love of God is agape love—unconditional and sacrificial love for the benefit of another. God’s love never changes, fails or abandons.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:7-9, 16
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.16We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.