A Month of Meditations About God’s Nature and Character

By Louann Abraham

Each book in the Month of Meditations series includes 31 readings on a single topic. This book, A Month of Meditations about God’s Nature and Character, explores what the Bible tells us about our God. The more we know of what He is like, the more our hearts will be drawn to love and worship Him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664268654

Louann Abraham

Louann was born in Ohio. She and her late husband, Joseph, spent 26 years as missionaries in England. She originally wrote the Month of Meditations series as a way of sharing with friends the things she’d been learning through studying the Word of God. She now lives in South Carolina.

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GOD IS UNIQUE

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Over and over in the Scriptures we read that our God is like no other. God Himself declares that truth, and others have affirmed it as well.

In the early chapters of Deuteronomy, Moses recounts in detail all that had happened to the Israelites since they had left Egypt. Towards the end of chapter 4 he begins pointing out ways in which their God is superior to those worshiped by other nations. He concludes in verse 39 by saying, "Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else."

In Hannah’s prayer of thanksgiving, she declares, "There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee. . . (1 Sam. 2:2). Solomon’s lengthy prayer at the dedication of the temple begins with the words, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath" (1 Kings 8:23).

In Is. 45:5 God reminds His people, "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me. In Is. 46:5 He asks rhetorically, To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we would be like?"

These verses—and many others—emphasize two closely-related truths. One is that Jehovah is the only true and living God. Throughout the centuries man has worshiped countless thousands of gods of one description or another. But all of them are simply products of man’s own imagination. Not one is or ever has been an actual living being. That distinction belongs to Jehovah alone.

The second truth is that no other actual being—angel, demon or human—is exactly like God and therefore equal to Him. Angels share some things in common with God, for example in that they are beings of spirit, rather than having material existence. But they are mere servants of God, vastly inferior to Him.

We as human beings are created in God’s image; but an image is only a faint representation, not an exact duplicate. When you look in a mirror, you see an image of yourself. But that image lacks many characteristics that you yourself have. In the same way, we are a little bit like God in some ways—ways that make it possible for us to have a personal relationship with Him—but not exactly like Him. We don’t even come close.

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GOD IS MORE THAN

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Each day’s reading in this book touches on some aspect of God’s nature or His character. But no book of any length can adequately cover that subject. It’s just too big. God, in the entirety of His being, is more than the human mind can comprehend, and more than human language can express.

In His Word, God has told us some things about Himself. But though we may understand the words with which He describes Himself, we cannot fully grasp the realities behind those words. God has told us, for example, that He is eternal. We know the definition of that word; we even know the definition as it applies specifically to God. It means that He never had a beginning and will have no end. We also know, and can state in words, the fact that He exists outside time; that He can, at any moment, see all of what is—to us—past, present and future.

But take a moment to meditate on those words. Really think about what they mean about the kind of being God is. It won’t take long before you start feeling that your mind is on overload! And that is just one of many things God tells us about Himself.

As David meditated on just one part of what he knew about God, he concluded, Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. (Ps. 139:6). And in Ps. 145:3 he said of God, His greatness is unsearchable.

The book of Job says much about this subject. After describing some of the things God does in nature, Job says, Lo these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power, who can understand? (26:14). Several chapters later Elihu says, Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. (36:26). And in chapter 37, verse 23 we read, Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out.

This same truth is recorded in the New Testament. At the conclusion of a lengthy discourse, Paul exclaims, O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Rom. 11:33).

Just as our human minds can never truly know and understand all there is to know about God, so no human language can fully describe Him. As He has revealed Himself to us, He has used human terms to communicate with our human minds. But those