Attributes - Part 3

Not only is God eternal, but He is infinite. Infinity means without bounds or end.  God is not bound by time, nor is He bound by anything else. I Kings 8:27 states, “Will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you.”

God is Spirit. He is not made of matter. John wrote in chapter 4 verse 24 that “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” Material beings occupy both time and space and of course were created. None of these things apply to God.

God is omnipotent. He has unlimited power. Since God is free of time and space, He can use His unlimited power whenever, wherever, and however He chooses. Just because He has the ability to change things doesn’t mean He is obligated to change them. Psalm 115 compares our God to idols, “Not unto us, O Lord not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake…..our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” It goes on to say that idols, which are made by man, have mouths, but can’t speak, and ears, but can’t hear. Why would someone worship something made with their own hands rather than the creator of the universe who made all things?

I would like to pause here and expound somewhat on the statement that God is not obligated to change things simply because He has the ability to do so. Terrible things happen in our world today. I’ve heard the statement, “Bad things happen to good people.” God’s Word tells us in Romans 3:10, “…There is none righteous, no not one.” And again in Psalm 14, “there is none that doeth good, no not one.” Remember we read in Colossians where it said, “…all things were made by Him, and FOR Him.”  So we exist for God, not God for us. If God is good, which HE IS, and He has unlimited power, which HE DOES, then He has the will and the ability to destroy evil, which HE WILL. It is not our place to say when, where, and how He does it.