How can God be described? We can picture God as like an extremely advanced, sagacious human, like a king the likes of which history has not seen. Not seen among secular monarchs but some religious monarchs have shown great similarity. Of course the spirit being who is God does not equate to a human. God is a spirit but resembles a human in how He chooses to be envisioned, in how He chooses to reveal Himself. Yet that is not the full extent of how He reveals Himself. He reveals the kindness of His behaviour in how He uplifts others and saves the day for normal people, especially for those who honour Him and who display His attributes and behaviour in their own lives. God graciously makes up for the shortcomings of human weakness and He chooses to reveal this aspect of His behaviour, His demeanour, His attributes. God also shows His fatherliness in that He has a real, ‘begotten’ son, and God loves to praise His Son and to reveal His Son to us. God the Father of this Son is not wanting us to be confused about having this Son: The Father is very much the One True God, as His Son proclaimed about the Father in Jesus Christ’s ministry to His disciples. God tells us that He, the Father, is God. Yet He lovingly displays His Son, Jesus, for us to look to and to follow. God wants us to know that Jesus is our Lord and Master. God wants Jesus to show us that God loves Jesus so strongly and answers all of Jesus’ prayers. And Jesus prays for us. That is God’s will for Jesus and for us. And the Holy Spirit seals it all by telling the wonders of Jesus’ name, supreme in all of Nature in its governing power over Nature to drive all Nature’s processes. Now this God, this Father, also gently bids us know we have fallen short of His standards for us. God is placing a close watch over our ways because we are not really trustworthy. Yet God is building those of us who believe into a Temple for Himself, alive but built together like stones, as scripture testifies. We do work given us by God to contribute efforts in this building. Christ died for you, for me. This is to cleanse us when we confess our sins. God raised the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and will raise the worthy from the dead one day too. This is God, the God over all gods, the Lord over all lords. And Jesus His Son is Lord over us all.
