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Who is God? How would someone describe Him? Can God even be described? The late S.M Lockridge once gave a sermon describing who God is and then concluded that God is simply indescribable. In Psalm 71:19, we read "... O God, who is like you?" And yet we also know from further study of the Psalms that one way we draw closer to God is to reflect and acknowledge who He reveals Himself to be and what He has done and is doing. In the coming months, Lily7 hopes to give you a small glimpse into who God is by focusing on a few of His attributes. By no way an exhaustive description of who God is, understanding these attributes has a profound effect on our life and how we view the world. They also serve to remind us of why we worship God, to reflect on who God is and how, like Reverand Lockridge concluded, He truly is indescribable. God is Knowing by Lindsay Kyle Today the sun’s beams warm me. The tall grass and yellow wild flowers remind me that spring has not forgotten the world, leaving us encased in icy cold. With the birth of new kittens and the blooming of baby trees into magnificent life, I cannot help but remember things lost along the way. Two years have gone since I lost my brother when the bird he flew fell from the sky and into the ocean deep. Before I felt his loss, I lived convinced that people lose people all the time and seem to move on. What I didn’t understand was the length and depth and breadth of the hole left behind. The absence that shadows days like this reminds me of something important about God: He knows. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down And are acquainted with all my ways. You hem in me, behind and before, And you lay your hand upon me. --Psalm 139 I must bow my heart in understanding. God knew of the loss I would face. He knows everything, and he knows everything all together, not in pieces. Sometimes that truth angers me. Sometimes my insides rage for want of justice, of answers, of pain removed. And sometimes, the truth of God’s omniscience in this story is a beautiful comfort. Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. --Revelation 21 I close my eyes in the warmth of the spring sun. God knows all things. Even the end. And He is making all things new.