When I Say God

Speaking to God I say, "You are God and there is no other god." But what does that mean, "You are God."? What am I saying when I say God referring to the God of the Bible? I am saying He is exactly as the Bible says He is--His attributes, His acts, His promises are exactly like the Bible says they are! He is eternal (Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.), self-existent and self-sufficient (Exodus 3:14 God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘ I AM has sent me to you.’” ; Psalms 50:12 “If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains.) [Strongs, in his theology, says "God exists by the necessity of his own being. It is his nature to be. Hence the existence of God is not a contingent but a necessary existence. It is grounded, not in his volition, but in his nature.], merciful, kind and loving (Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, . . . ” [NKJV], Psalms 103:17 But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children.), just (Exodus 34:7 ". . . by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation." [NKJV]), faithful (1Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.”  [NASB]). He is all of these things and very much more, infinitely so. There is no understanding God. He is too big to understand with our finite minds, yet He has giving us an understanding of Himself so that we can have a very real personal relationship with Him, that we may know Him as Jeremiah 9:23 speaks of. It is God's pleasure to reveal Himself to us--but the thing unrevealed are for Him alone, Deuteronomy 29:29.