If he get his will, I am afraid that I should not get mine, if the God who I'm so found to speak and love, I cannot trust, I know for a fact that my recovery will fail.
Somebody ask me if I can define God, 1st I have to know what a definition means To define,is simply to bound, to separate, or distinguish; so that the thing defined may be discriminated from all other things.
This may be done by stating its characteristics and his specific difference, by explaining the idea as it lies in our minds, and by explaining the term which is denoted.
When we say we can define God, all that is meant is, that we can analyze the idea of God as it lies in our mind. NO, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE GOD OF MY UNDESTANDIG, I am NOT talking about making a god out of my mind, but the characteristics of God that my mind can understand.
He is distinguished from all other beings. Is the simples definition. Hence God is perfect, (no other being like him), Him as a being, not an idea, but as that which has real, objective existence; and absolute perfection distinguishes Him from all other beings.
Which take us to the Westminster Statement of faith, I don't what to loose you here, give it a chance, God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, and it what sense, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
What is meant by the words “being,” and “perfections,” or “attributes” of God?
By being I meant that which has a real, substantive existence. It is equivalent to substance, or essence. It is opposed to what is merely thought, and to a mere force or power. I know what you thinking, what about antimatter, well antimatter, is not infinite, another characteristic of God. When, therefore, we say there is a God, we do not assert merely that there is in our minds the idea of an infinite Spirit; but that, entirely independent of our idea of Him, such a Being really exists. (remember, I am not trying to prove the existence of God, but just a definition of him, and NO that not apply to Pantheism, that affirms that the subjective alone is real, hence not being but the being)
Now to the attributes of God, in attempting to explain the relation in which the attributes of God stand to his essence and to each other, there are two extremes to be avoided. First, we must not represent God as a composite being, composed of different elements; and, secondly, we must not confound the attributes, making them all mean the same thing, which is equivalent to denying them all together.
It will take me a lot of time to define each one of this: infinity, eternity, immutability, knowledge, justice, goodness, truth and sovereignty his will and his power.
I know when me and her sit to discuss this matter over coffee, I can hear her saying “God is Love, and that's all I need to know, that's the God of my understanding”, How, how can you understand a God, if you don't look for him, or you only want to see what you want to see or don't.
I think getting to know this being with such marvelous characteristics, it will be a good investment of time.
For more you can look for the work of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Charles Hodge, the Westminster confession of faith.
Prayer plumes the wings of God’s young
eaglets, that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer
surrounds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to
troubled mortals the peace of God.
We know not what prayer cannot do. We are not disturbed by doubts and defeats when we make everything a matter of earnest prayer. We enjoy an unbroken fellowship with God when we make our requests known unto Him in daily prayer. He imparts to us the necessary strength to cope with the temptations and trials incident to life in this benighted world when everything relating to life is made known unto Him in prayer. We find it necessary to reveal both our spiritual and our temporal needs unto Him in prayer. There will be times when our feelings will contradict our faith. Sickness can depress our emotions to such an extent that we are disposed to doubt our relationship to God. When we are sick, when our nerves are tense, when we are constantly on the verge of tears, our faith will be submerged by our feelings. In such times of trial it seems that the joy of the Lord has departed, and we are tempted to think that for some unknown reason we are suffering the displeasure of God. The infirmities of the body can cause the imagination to run wild. Sickness can cause many fantastic ideas and strange impressions to disturb and confuse our minds. When a soldier is wounded in battle it is of little use for him to know that there are those at the hospital who can bind up his wounds, and medicines there to ease all the pains which he now suffers: what he needs is to be carried, and to have the remedies applied. The same with our souls, and to meet this need there is but one, He will manifest His love to you, and by His blessed Spirit, will disperse your cares and troubles.
