Picture of GOD

GOD

Reader's Digest once featured a funny little story from a reader that went something like this:


A teacher of young children had given them an assignment to make a drawing. She circulated through the class talking to the students about their individual work. When she asked one child what she was drawing, the child responded, "a picture of GOD". To this the teacher replied "but nobody knows what GOD looks like". The child quickly responded, "everyone will know when I am finished".

Let's see what the Bible says about HIM.
What two basic characteristics are part of God's nature?
Let’s see what the Bible says:,
Psalm 145:17, NIV. "The Lord is righteous in all His ways and loving toward all He has made."

How is God described?
Let’s see what the Bible says:,
Deuteronomy 32:4, NIV. "He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is He."

What about God's strength?
Let’s see what the Bible says:,
Job 36:5, RSV. "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; He is mighty in strength of understanding."

Can God be trusted to keep His promises?
Let’s see what the Bible says:,
Deuteronomy 7:9, NIV. "Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commands."

Can we describe God in one word?
Let’s see what the Bible says:,
I John 4:8, NIV. "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

God is compassionate.
The Bible says:,
Psalm 86:15, NIV. "But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."

God is impartial.
the Bible says:,
Acts 10:34-35, NIV. "Then Peter began to speak: ‘I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear Him and do what is right."

How far was God willing to go to guarantee a future for me?
Let’s see what the Bible says:,
John 3:16, TLB. "For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."

God has given the ultimate demonstration of what real love is.
The Bible says:,
I John 4:9-10, TLB. "God showed how much He loved us by sending His only Son into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through His death. In this act we see what real love is: it is not our love for God, but His love for us when He sent His Son to satisfy God's anger against our sins."

It pleases God to show us mercy when we don't deserve it.
The Bible says:,
Micah 7:18, NIV. "Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy."

God's blessings are not given just to good people.
The Bible says:,
Matthew 5:45-46, TLB. "For He gives His sunlight to both the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much."

God stops at nothing! He wants us to have it all!
Let’s see what the Bible says:, Romans 8:32, NIV. "He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?"

God loves us like a doting father.
the Bible says:, I John 3:1, NIV. "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"

God's love is like a safe hiding place.
Let’s see what the Bible says:,
Psalm 36:7, NIV. "How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings."

We are to follow God's example.
Once again, let's see what the Bible says:,
I John 4:11, NIV. "Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."

Love sometimes means discipline.
The Bible says:, Hebrews 12:6, NIV. "Because the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes everyone He accepts as a son."

God never gives up on us.
The Bible says:, Jeremiah 31:3, NIV. "The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."

Can anything separate God's child from His love?
GOD says through His Word, the Bible:,
Romans 8:38-39, NIV. "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."