God's Character - Your Character

How can we tell what God's character is like? Let's look at a few scriptures that will not only give us a clue but pretty much show us what His character is.

First, let's define Character. From Dictionary.com - Character: the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.

Using that as our basis we can easily see from scripture what God's character is. Of course the first scripture we will look at is 1 John 4: 7-8 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love.

The most important trait for us to know about God is that He is love. He loves all that He created but most of all He loves the creation called human. Not just a select few humans but all humans. He grieves when humans reject Him (Genesis 6: 5-7 God saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil—evil, evil, evil from morning to night. God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. God said, "I'll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds—the works. I'm sorry I made them.") But because He loved His creation called man He responded to the heart of one man who was named Noah and He did not blot out all of mankind and the other life forms. His heart was broken but He loved mankind so much He found a way for them to carry on.

If God is love every other character trait will flow from the stand point of love. Let's look at Galatians 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

The nature of God is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. The good news for you and me is these are the very fruits that you and I can have through the Holy Spirit which we receive upon acceptance of Jesus Christ as our savior. We can experience having the charater of God.

You might be saying but wait I believe in Jesus and I am not always loving, have joy, at peace, not patient, sometimes not too kind, certainly not good, at times I lack faith, and as far as gentleness goes that left with self-control. God knows that and He still loves you and invites you to continue to strive to be those things. In this life you will never reach perfection but He will not give up on you. Look at Hebrews 13: 5 Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you," we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?

Every now and then you will look back on a day and see that God's Character has invaded Your Character. On days like that smile for you have been visited by the Kingdom.