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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 Patient by Kelly Massey I am a very impatient person and in my own life I expect immediate results. I want to see things happen right away. Here is a great example from my life: I am 28 and still single. I never thought I would say that. When I was 20 everyone kept telling me just wait and pray and it will happen. Or they would say, "as soon as you stop looking, he will come along." I have stopped looking...about 15 times...and, still, I am single. I kept thinking, God you said to wait and this is what I have done; I have been sitting here, waiting and doing nothing. What I have realized is that He did say wait, but it is not a "sitting still" type of waiting that He wants. He wants me to serve Him though His church and have community with other people. Through the years, He has shown me a lot of things about my life and my character that have been pretty painful and that have caused me die a little more to myself. And I have started to realize, slowly, how thankful I really am that God has taken more time to prepare me in that area. I was hoping for a husband that would fill all those issues that only God could fill. I just needed to be patient and fall in love with Him to realize that only He can truly heal me. Because I rush everything in my life, and want quick results, it never really forces me to appreciate anything. God is patient. We read this in numerous places in the Bible. I often skim over it nodding my head because it is just another of the great qualities that He has. Recently I started reading the Bible from the beginning and it amazed me just how much patience He really has. So many times I have read over the story of creation, thinking of how amazing it is, but have found that I was not really reading it. I think we sometimes miss one of the amazing things about the story of creation...God, who can do anything, everything, and do it all in the snap of a finger, took 6 days to create the world. He took time. He actually took time, to create, name and then rest from one day to another. How often do we really let that process? 6 days to create and 1 day to rest and reflect on that creation. My mind races when I think of the self control that must take, to do one thing with so much purpose and to take time so that it means something. If I were God, I think I would have created all of creation in 30 minutes just to show how truly amazing I thought I was and the power I thought I had because I could do 5,000 things in 5 minutes if I wanted to. I am prideful and arrogant. God is always in control. Great control, thought and purpose went into His work. God did not have to show off, He was creating beauty. Beauty in the simplicity of light and dark, water and land, and the seasons. Imagine the beauty He is also creating in us. Slowly making us more like Himself every single day of our lives. It makes me so thankful for a God that is patient with me. That He can see true beauty in what He is creating in me...and in you.