The Personality of God

There are many things about God we simply don’t understand.  How can it be that He has no beginning and no end?  How can He hear a million prayers at one time?  How can He deal with each prayer individually…without benefit of email, text message or I Phone??

The answer is that God lives outside of time and space and He can reveal Himself in any way He chooses.

Therefore God has a personality.  He is not merely “The Force”….as in Star Wars. He knows each of us personally and He wants us to know Him. An impersonal force doesn’t know us or care how we live.  But a loving personal God does.

Perhaps that is why God chose to reveal Himself in a person….a real life human just as we are. …..a man who can relate to us and us to Him.

But not only did He reveal Himself in the form of the man, Jesus, but He manifests himself as a spirit and dwells within the believer. ^““And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever….⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.  (John 14:5)

We see the power of the Holy Spirit as one of God’s “personalities”. The spirit personality of God was there from the beginning.

In Genesis 1: 2, “ The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”

When Jesus used the word “ Helper”…He means the Holy Spirit.  He is our helper. The Spirit intercedes for us in our prayers, He helps illuminate scripture and gives us peace.

God has not left us alone.  Not only do we have His word, the Bible, but after Jesus left the earth the promised Holy Spirit came to dwell in a special way in believers.

Jesus told us that circumstances in this world may range from not- so- good…..to just plain awful! But by belonging to Him and allowing the Spirit of God himself to live within us….true peace is possible………..even now.

                                          Yes, this is God’s personality.