God Is...

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” - A.W. Tozer

Who is God? There isn’t a more important question we can ask. How we think about God - what he’s like, how he responds, what his character is - these ideas deeply form us as human beings. Philosophers, theologians, and thinkers have written volumes describing God to us, but in two verses in the book of Exodus God describes himself.

"The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” (Exodus 34:6-5)

This Sunday we begin a series spending six weeks soaking in these two verses. They’re the most quoted verses in the Bible, by the Bible. They are God’s self-introduction to us. And they’re meant to form the foundation for what comes into our minds when each of us think about God.