God, the Creator of heaven and earth has remained a mystery to many. Many people have invested their time and resources to try and unearth this God. In my effort to better explain these attributes, I will be doing an exploration of God’s being, his essential attributes, his relational attributes, and the relevance of his attributes to our thinking, lives, and worship. However I must confess that I will not be able to exhaust all there is to know. about God. As we better understand God’s attributes, we will learn to delight in who God is and how he has made himself known to us in Scripture

So it is true that God exists and is way above and superior to us. He says in Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, (NKJV). His person is way above our comprehension. The analysis of God’s being is what we derive from his self-revelation to us in the Bible and is confirmed by our experience of its truth.

There are two groups pf attributes of God;

His Essential Attributes

His Communicable Attributes

His Essential or Divine Attributes

These are attributes that are only reserved for God and we do not have a take in them. We cannot have them or attain them. This is what makes God and they are incommunicable and cannot be possessed by any other being.

Omnipotent/ All-powerful

The Revelation of John in chapter 19:6b says “Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” (KJV). The verses preceding it highlight what John heard. He “heard voices of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings” Rev 19:6a (KJV). This speaks of power and the sovereign nature of God. When a great multitude with such great voice and might accord Lord God praise, then it means the One who is being accorded praise is mighty. This is what John found out. He saw the greatness of God, the power of God in display in the vision he had of heaven and what was happening there.

I love how Tozer links all power with the sovereignty of God in his book The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God;  

To reign, God must have power, and to reign sovereignly, He must have all power. And that is what omnipotent means, having all power. 

Both the Revelator and Tozer touch on the aspect of God having all power. This attribute of God being all-powerful or what is called in Latin omnipotent means he has all power. The closer English version of it is Almighty a word that appears in our English Bible around fifty-six times. Paul too declares the all-powerful nature of God in (Rom 1:20) evidenced in the nature itself. He states that when we behold nature, we will see the power of God on display. The Psalmist too says that “Power belongs to God” Ps 62:11 (ESV).

The creation God made praise him. They all declare his glory and speak of his might according to Psalm 19:1. His greatness and power are so great that the heavens and the skies declare to them that care to listen. They do so day after day, night after night. With this, we can only attest to the grandeur of him who created them.

Omnipresent/All-Present

God is said to be present in all the places all the time. The Psalmist ask a very fundamental question in Psalm 139:7-12 of where he can hide from the presence of God. He states that if he goes to heaven, hides in the earth or deep in the sea, in all these places God is to be found. It talks of the all-present nature of God. Paul in Ephesians 4:10 makes it clear that God’s presence in the person of Jesus Christ fills the entire universe. This attribute shows us that God is not limited to geographical location. He can be anywhere anytime.

This attribute again can show us that God is not limited to time. His presence is transcend of time. He is from eternity to eternity. John describes Jesus in Revelation 1:8 as the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty (ESV). This depicts one who is beyond time. He was there, he is here and will still be in the future. 

Omniscient/All-Knowing

God is also all-knowing. Apostle John in his letter said “Whenever our heart condemns us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything” 1 John 3:20 (CSB). He talks of God who knows everything. Even the deep secrets of our hearts are not hidden from him. he knows them all.

The Psalmist in  Psalm 139:1-4 talks of a God who is all-knowing; he knows when he sits and when he rises, he knows the words that will come out of his mouth even before he says them. This is the one who knows our thoughts from afar.