God’s Character

Sometimes we have questions in life that simply don’t have answers. With those questions comes a longing for answers upon which we hope to anchor our decisions. So what do we do when we don’t have the answers? Pastor Tony Pyle encourages us to anchor ourselves in the truth of God’s character, in particular His transcendence and imminence. While God is far bigger than anything this world can throw our way, He is also near to us, bringing us comfort and hearing our prayers.

[quote] Oh, the depth of the riches
and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments
and untraceable his ways!
For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?
And who has ever given to God,
that he should be repaid?
For from him and through him
and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever. Amen.
– Romans 11:33-36 [/quote]

[quote] Neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives everyone life and breath and all things. From one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being.
– Acts 17:25-28 [/quote]

[quote] For the High and Exalted One,
who lives forever, whose name is holy, says this:
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.
– Isaiah 57:15 [/quote]