Question 2: What is God?

Answer: God is the creator and sustainer of everyone and everything. He is eternal, infinite, and unchangeable in His power and perfection, goodness and glory, wisdom, justice, and truth. Nothing happens except through Him and by His will.

Kids Answer: God is the creator of everyone and everything.

Key Scripture: Psalm 86:8-10,15

Additional Scripture: Colossians 1:15-17; Isaiah 46:9-10

What’s really important to see and understand... is that we are not

permitted to take one attribute of God and make everything of it. We

cannot, let’s say, take His sovereignty and forget His goodness. Or take

His goodness and forget His holiness (His holiness is what makes Him

the God of judgment). Or take His judgment, even the severity of His

judgment, and forget that He’s the God of love, the God who has so

much loved even His rebellious creatures that ultimately He sent His Son

to bear their sin in His own body on the tree. In other words, to get to the

heart of who God is and to bow before Him in some small measure of

genuine understanding, it’s important to think through what the Bible says

again and again and integrate the whole with the same balance and

proportion that Scripture itself gives. That calls us to worship. And if we

put anything else in the place of God, that is the very definition of idolatry.

—D. A. Carson, Christian Author

Questions to ask: (To help process the truth we learned. Ask yourself, a

friend, your group, or your family questions to talk through it together)

• What circumstances tempt you to believe that God is not good?

• Are there times when you suspect that God is powerless to sustain

and provide what you need? What do you tend to do when you

conclude God is not providing what you need?

• What about God being “unchangeable in His power and perfection”

creates for us a sense of safety and security?

• Even though God is “unchangeable in His power and perfection,”

describe ways in Scripture where God demonstrates His amazing

creativity and adaptability to His people’s circumstances and needs.