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Top 7 Bible Verses That Describe God

Top 7 Bible Verses That Describe God

Last updated on: June 12, 2015 at 11:16 am by Jada Pryor

Top 7 Bible Verses That Describe God 2015-06-12T11:16:52-05:00 Jada Pryor

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We could spend our entire lives seeking to know God and never truly grasp enormity of who He is and what He does. Perhaps we are not meant to understand all of him in this life. Maybe the journey to discover who He is only ends when we reach Heaven. Until then, the Bible leave us many clues about God’s nature. The following verses are glimpses into the true character of our Lord. How wonderful it is that we serve a God who does not wish to remain a distant, far-off figure, but instead desires a relationship with his children. Read on, and let’s spend some time getting to know Him a little bit better.

Psalm 23 1-3

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake

Even as a child, before I came to know Christ, I would hear this verse and a sense of peace would wash over me. Perhaps it was the image of God as my shepherd-leading me, protecting me, watching over me-that set me so at ease. Even today, when I need a reminder of God’s presence, I whisper this verse to myself and remember that all I have I have to do is follow my shepherd, and he will lead me home.

Exodus 3:13-14

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’

God is not someone who exists “along with us.” He is existence himself. We exist in the stratosphere of who He is. Knowing this should bring some comfort as it is a reminder that the world was, is, and always will be in him. Though troubles may come, and life may sometimes seem as if it is spinning out of control, we can take comfort in the same words that God spoke to Moses. We can rest knowing that this world it is held in the very capable hands of the Creator, the great I AM, and he will see it through to the very end.

Genesis 16:13

She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

Sometimes in life, it can become easy to believe that we are far too small to possibly matter to a great big God. Genesis 16 tells us that that is not the truth. That all who are created by God, are seen by God. Hagar was a mistreated slave in the middle of the desert. By society’s standards, she was considered a nobody. She ran away in an act of complete and utter despair, convinced that she was alone in her misery. Then God showed up to remind her that He does not see as the world sees. He comforted her and spoke of future blessings. Hagar lifted up her head in that moment, in that knowledge that she was not alone. That is the God we serve-and he leaves no one unseen.

John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

There is no greater description of God than that He is love. Sometimes it can be hard for us to understand how he could possible love us so much. We sin so often, stumble so greatly, that we cannot imagine that He is not falling out of love with us on a daily basis. But God’s love is not of this world. We cannot fathom it because we have no earthly example of a love that great- EXCEPT through Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross. A sacrifice ordained by a God whose very heart broke over the thought of losing us. A God of love.

Exodus 34:5-7

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

I think that many people imagine God as an old man in the sky, keeping track of our mistakes, and punishing us for our misdeeds. They spend their lives hustling to make amends, attempting to earn their way back into this “old man’s” good graces. I have been guilty myself of believing that God is a God of judgment first, and compassion only for those who most please him. This verse flips that notion on its head. God, himself is telling us that this is not the case. The very act of describing himself to us this way, speaks to his compassion and mercy. He cares enough to make sure we understand his true nature. That belief that He is a scorekeeper for who we must jump through hoops? That is nothing more than a terrible case of mistaken identity.

Deuteronomy 4:24

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Earthly jealousy is most often a bad thing. It springs out of dissatisfied places in the heart and, if not controlled, can lead to our undoing. The jealousy of God is not the same. He desires us to be His, and His alone, because He knows that is the only way to true salvation. Imagine that you were about to set out on a journey. You have a map that tells you the exact route to take to get to your location, along with an experienced tour guide to lead you. What if you chose, instead, to go in the opposite direction, and to rely on your on wits to lead you to your destination? The tour guide has offered to take you all the way there, but yet you decide to go your own way, a path that this guide knows spells certain trouble. This is much the same way God must feel when He sees us choose to go off on our direction. He just wants to guide us, and He cannot bear the thought of us allowing someone else to do so, when it will most certainly get us lost.

Psalms 50:6

And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge.

Isn’t it a relief to know that it is not up to us to be the judge and jury towards others? How easy it is to make decisions about people based on what we think is right and wrong in their lives. The Bible says we are to be a helpmate to others should they stray from the path of righteousness. It does not say, however, that we get to decide if they are worthy. Only the Lord knows the truth about someone’s heart. Trusting Him to make the final judgment frees us to love, which is, in the end, the job he proclaimed of most importance. Let us allow Him to do his work, while we concentrate on ours.

Conclusion:

I imagine that when you first met your spouse, you were not immediately head over heels in love. After first discovering who they were, you were intrigued enough to find out more about them. You decided to pursue the relationship and see where it led. In doing so, you were able to get to know who they were and what made them tick, and before long, you could not imagine your life without them. This is, in some ways, comparable to our walk with God. The Bible says,

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jer. 29:13)

I urge you to seek Him. Pursue a relationship with Him. Use the verses above, pray, speak to Him and listen for His response. You’ll find him for sure, and when you do you’ll fall in love with Him too. You’ll shake your head and try to comprehend how you got so lucky to have a love like this in your life…? The answer is as simple as it is true. There is no earthly reason for Him to love us so much-but that’s just who He is.

Article by Jada Pryor

Scriptures from: New International Version (NIV)

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