God proclaimed about Himself: “Even from eternity, I am He” (Isaiah 43.13).  Therefore, this eternity of God means that He is the sure and steadfast dwelling place for all His creatures (Deuteronomy 33.27). He is Lord over time, existing both above time and within time for His own glory and purposes. He is totally free from the passing of time and never hindered or limited by the demands of time and urgency of the moment. 

1. The Holiness of God

The holiness of God describes and defines God as different than His creation. Holy is the only attribute and description of God that is mentioned three times for superlative emphasis. He is Holy! Holy! Holy! The holiness of God is not just an attribute (or, a description) of God. It is the very beauty of Who God is. It is the perfect sum total of all that God is and how He deals with all His creation. For God to be holy means that He is set-apart and different.  He is holy MAJESTICALLY — because he is different than his creation in his essence, in his being, in his perfections, in his God-hood.  He is holy MORALLY — because is he totally set-apart and distinct from everything that is profane, sinful, and corrupt. He is holy DELIGHTFULLY — because God is infinitely happy and perfectly delighted in Himself and in His perfections.

2. The Sovereignty of God 

The sovereignty of God fills the pages of Scripture from beginning to end. This marvelous & towering doctrine means that God is King.  As King, He has perfect decrees, plans, wisdom, protection, provisions and guarantees to ensure all His purposes are accomplished.  For God to be sovereign means that God is God. It means that He is in control — of everything.  Every single thing. This blows our minds.  God is in control of the bird weaving a nest together.  God has ordained the laws of nature (all of them). God has created the world with His own effortless spoken Word (instantly without delay). God rules over heaven, over hell, over the righteous, over the unrighteous, over all angels, and over all circumstance in all the universe.  God reigns as King sovereignly in a WISE and perfect manner. Everything he does is full of powerful wisdom. God reigns as King sovereignly in a GOOD manner. It would be tragic to have a powerful but corrupt king. It would be a pity to have a merciful but powerless King. But we have a Good King who is infinitely wise and powerful.  

3. The Unchangeableness of God 

Many call the unchangeableness of God the immutability of God. This means that God cannot and does not change. If God alone is perfect then He cannot change or he would then cease being perfect and become something else. But God everlastingly remains the same — yesterday, today, and forever. He says: “I the LORD do not change” (Malachi 3.6).  His being does not change. His essence and character never alters. His attributes never fluctuate. God never has a bad day. God never has a mood-swing. God never is frustrated because things don’t go His way.  Men change and rise and fall. Animals are born and then die. All creation changes and shifts and is altered over time. But God, God alone, from the very beginning of time, indeed from all infinite eternities past, has never ever changed even in the slightest. He is the towering Rock, the eternal Lord, the unchanging God, and the mighty fortress. The unchangeableness of God means that everything God has purposed and decreed shall be accomplished. The unchangeableness of God also requires that God fulfill all His promises. Here is a solid footing for you to rest your weary, tired, fatigued, uncertain, and anxious heart. Come to the immutability of your God and gaze on His unchanging love for you. And bow low and worship Him!

4. The Patience of God 

God is patient and slow to anger. God preached His own character and nature and said to Moses: “the Lord…slow to anger” (Ex 34:6). One of the repeated qualities of God all throughout the Bible is that God is “slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth” (Ps 103:8; Neh. 9:17; Num 14:18). For God to be patient means that He is marvelously long-tempered. He delays His wrath and His judgment. He doesn’t have to and nor does He always choose to do this the same way, but God wonderfully chooses to withhold wrath. History shows and demonstrates God’s profound patience with humanity.  The patience of God consists in a deliberate, perfect, gracious forbearance. He can do this because “the LORD is slow to anger and great in power” (Nahum 1.3). All sinners are called and summoned (by God Himself!) to repent and return to this God genuinely with a true heart because God is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger (Joel 2.13).   It has rightly been called the “the majestic restraint of the Almighty.” In the face of human sin, rebellion, transgression, and great evil, God has marvelously delayed His wrath. God surely has all power to bring judgment on sin but He chooses, according to His wise and perfect designs, to delay and withhold His wrath for a time.  Don’t mistake it: God does not overlook sin; rather, He delays His wrath. God is not apathetic toward sin; He simply delays the punishment.

5. The Power of God 

The power of God proves to be one of God’s most distinctive character qualities. His power is perfect, precise, good and unlimited. Theologians call it the “Omnipotence of God.” This speaks of the all-powerful and unlimited ability of God (and God alone) to do all His holy and perfect will. David affirmed that “in God’s hand are power and might” (1 Chronicles 29:12). Also: it is true that power and might are in God’s hand so that *no one can stand against God* (2 Chronicles 20:6).  Nothing is too difficult for the Lord (Jeremiah 32:17).  God’s amazing and unrivaled power exists perfectly and has existed perfectly from all eternity as He had no beginning. He has never, ever increased in power or grown in ability. God has never had an energetic burst or a day of limited power. He always and ever exercises unlimited, unrivaled, undiminishing ability to perform and execute all His eternal decrees.  God manifested His power in the everlasting decrees within the Triune Godhead when He foreknew and elected and predestined particular individuals to be saved in Christ. Then, in a perfect intra-trinitarian pact, the Father gave to the Son these elect souls for the Son of God to come and redeem forevermore. What amazing power on display in the unified Godhead.

6. The Grace of God 

Scripture speaks of God as the “God of all grace” (1 Peter 5.10). The grace of God is the kind benevolence of God. God’s grace is unearned, undeserved, unmerited. It is the favor, the kind and perfect kindness of God given to the ill-deserving.  Amazingly, the grace of God biblically goes beyond this. It even includes the kindness and benevolence of God given toward those who deserve the exact opposite: wrath.  The grace of God cannot be earned by a good life or deserved by good actions. It does not come to one in response to his religiosity. Grace flows from God’s sheer and infinite love. Grace pours forth from the kind hand of God to the wrath-deserving.  God’s grace is not some passive thing that sort of ‘happens’. It proves to be an active force, a most glorious action from the Almighty God who lavishes undeserved blessings upon hellbent sinners.   Grace pardons. Grace forgives. Grace reconciles. Grace saves. Grace empowers. And Grace equips the child of God to serve God in a way that God is well-pleased.  The divine grace not only includes pardon from sin but it also brings power to live for His glory.

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