What does it mean to know the character of God?
It doesn’t mean knowing facts about God. It doesn’t mean memorizing verses. It doesn’t mean winning theological debates. Demons know facts about God.
Knowing God’s character means understanding who He is by watching what He does. The same way you learn who a person really is not by what they say about themselves but by how they act when it matters.
So what has God done?
He made a covenant with Abraham and has never broken it. Thousands of years. Exiles, empires, persecutions, a holocaust. His people are still here. That tells you He is faithful.
He gave the law not to burden people but to show them what He is like. Don’t murder because He is the giver of life. Don’t steal because He is just. Don’t commit adultery because He is faithful. The commandments are a self-portrait.
That tells you He wants to be known.
He sent prophets to a people who kept turning away. Not once. Not twice. Over and over for centuries. They killed His messengers and He sent more.
That tells you He is patient beyond anything we would consider reasonable.
He entered His own creation as a man. Not as a king in a palace. As a baby in a feeding trough. He grew up in an occupied country in a nothing town. He worked with His hands. That tells you He is humble.
He touched lepers when no one else would. He spoke to the Samaritan woman when culture said He shouldn’t. He ate with tax collectors and sinners when religion said it would make Him unclean. That tells you His love is not limited by the boundaries we create.
He wept at the tomb of Lazarus even though He was about to raise him from the dead. He already knew the outcome and He still cried. That tells you He feels what we feel. Our pain moves Him even when He holds the solution.
He washed His disciples’ feet. The Creator of the universe knelt on the floor and did the work of the lowest servant in the house. That tells you His authority doesn’t look like what the world calls authority.
He forgave Peter for denying Him three times. He didn’t just forgive him. He restored him. He made him a leader. That tells you His grace doesn’t just pardon. It restores and promotes.
He forgave from the cross. While being executed by the people He came to save, He said “Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” That tells you His love has no limit and no condition.
He rose from the dead. That tells you His love is stronger than the worst thing evil can do.
That’s the character of God. Not a theological concept. A person you can know by watching how He moves through history and through a human life that was lived for 33 years where everyone could see it.
And here’s why it matters.
Every false theology is built on a distortion of God’s character. If you believe God breaks His promises, you’ll accept replacement theology. If you believe God rules through domination, you’ll accept authoritarian religion. If you believe God requires institutions to mediate His presence, you’ll accept systems that put men between you and your Creator.
If you believe God is angry and distant, you’ll live in fear instead of freedom.
But if you know His character, the lies don’t stick. You can spot the distortion because you know what the original looks like. You don’t need someone to tell you what God is like. You’ve seen Him. In His word. In His Son. In His faithfulness across thousands of years of history.
The point of Scripture was always to show us who God is. And once you see Him clearly, everything else falls into place.
God is faithful. God is patient. God is humble. God is just. God is merciful. God is present. God is love.
Not God has love. God IS love. That’s His nature. That’s His character. That’s what every page of Scripture has been pointing to all along.
And once you know that, no one can sell you a counterfeit.
And that is why you submit of your own free will.
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As a former FDA psychiatrist, I read it closely. What I found was alarming.
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Watch this Wyoming legislator beg his Republican colleagues to vote against school choice.
"This is not a filibuster. God, I'm just trying to somehow, PLEASE! .. our precious public school dollars."
He got a 100% rating from the teachers union.
The bill passed 39 to 20.
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- GRAPES MUST BE CRUSHEO TO MAKE WINE
- DIAMONDS FORM UNDER PRESSURE.
- OLIVES ARE PRESSED TO RELEASE OIL.
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