What are the traits and characteristics of God?
Let’s start with some basics:
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- God is all-knowing. (omniscience)
- God is all powerful. (omnipotence)
- God is supremely good. (omnibenevolence)
Sometimes we may hear that we should ‘be like God’. But wait! What does that mean? Can we be all-knowing? Can we be all powerful? Can we be supremely good?
The honest answer is no. There are groups and teachers that misinterpret the scriptures and teach things like we are gods, we become gods, we can speak things into existence. No. Just no. You are not God. You will never be God.
Ephesians 5:1 says: “Be ye therefore followers of God”.
When we are followers of God that does mean that we will seek to imitate God in some ways.
Let’s discover some characteristics of God that we can try to imitate in our daily walk.
Exodus 34:6 says: “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth”
In what ways can you do these in your daily walk with God and with your neighbor:
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- Merciful
- Gracious
- Longsuffering
- Abundant in goodness
- Abundant in truth
- Remember that we were created in Christ Jesus for good works. A good work is something that is done. It’s not our good intentions, or thinking we will do good someday, or wishing that we do good. It’s doing good.
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Let’s go practice doing good!