What is the character of God?

What is the character of God?

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1John 4:8

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 1John 4:16

He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy. Micah 6:8

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, and to walk humbly with thy God? Ephesians 2:4

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. 1John 4:10

God is Love.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out: He is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: He will not afflict. Job 37:23

Justice and judgment are the habitation of Thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before Thy face. Psalms 89:14

Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. Isaiah 9:7

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. Jeremiah 23:5

God is Justice.

But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want (have needs). Psalms 23:1

O fear the LORD, ye His saints: for there is no want (needs) to them that fear Him. Psalms 34:9

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want (be lacking) any good thing. Psalms 34:10

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want (be empty). Proverbs 13:25

Not that I speak in respect of want :(need) for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Philippians 4:11

God is the supplier.

If God is love and He is the supplier of all our needs and He is just, than if He tells us to do something, He will give us all we need to do it. He will not tell us to do something and then sit back and laugh at us while we flounder. We can depend on His supplying all we need. Oh, we can't always tell where that supply will come from and God often waits until what seems to us the last minute to give us those supplies in order to build our faith that He WILL supply. But we CAN depend on Him. So the next natural question is…

What does God want from me? What is my purpose in life?

This is the most important question to ask after "Is there a God."

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man (human kind). Ecclesiastics 12:13

If ye love Me, keep My commandments. John 14:15

And He said unto him, "Why callest thou Me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." Matthew 19:17

If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love. John 15:10

And hereby we do know that we know Him; if we keep His commandments. 1John 2:3

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep His commandments. 1John 5:2

OK, He wants us to keep His commandments. What are they?

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, …Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deuteronomy 6:1,5



To be continued....
Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matthew 22:37-40

So if we Love God more than anything else in the world and love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves we are obeying all the laws and commandments contained in the Bible. We might ask with the lawyer speaking to Jesus;

"And who is my neighbor?" Luke 10:29b