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God is GOOD (Psalm 52:1). That God is good speaks to His kindness and mercy. We need not go far to see that God is essentially good. Genesis 1 & 2 proves the goodness of God beyond dispute. When God created the heavens and the earth, He did not fashion anything that was evil. The word and will of God penetrated the formlessness and the void of the primeval world (Gen. 1:2) in order that He, by the Spirit, might bring forth both form and life. God said let there be light (Gen. 1:3). The light is that which illuminates especially the awareness.  It was as if God said, let there be clarity and understanding. This clarity would most certainly apply to the proper benefit of the light of the day that is the light of the sun. Yet it would be appropriate to understand it as that which provides a correct and beneficial consciousness of all that follows in the Genesis 1-2 narrative. As the narrative goes on we see the good things that God creates. Moreover we see the goodness of God to create mankind in an intimate and concerned manner (Gen. 2:7, 18, 21-22)  

 

God is GREAT (Job 36:26). God's greatness speaks to His excellence. God is great (excellent) in His power and might, in His wisdom and knowledge, in His truth and faithfulness, and in His love, grace, and mercy. His greatness serves to cause men to admire Him all the more. God's whole work is great. His visible works, those of creation are such as to cause us to admire and commend Him for in these we observe the Creator's wisdom, power, and goodness. These works are clearly evident to all even though men deny both Him and them (Rom. 1:19). In observing the beauty and excellency of God's works we come to admire Him as great.

 

God is GRACIOUS (Exo. 34:6). God's graciousness signifies both God's freeness and His kindness. It speaks of Him having compassion for, and mercy upon, His creatures, and of His doing good to them, entirely of His own good-will. As it was with God's goodness, we need not go far to see God's graciousness. People who live as God's enemies may be justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus and they can be caused to be His people (Rom. 3:24). The Apostle writes that though Christ was rich (in the glories of the divine nature), yet for the sinner's sakes he became poor (incarnate to suffer and die), that they through His poverty might be rich in God's glory (2 Corinthians 8:9). It is to the praise of the glory of God's graciousness the men might be accepted by God in the beloved Christ (Eph. 1:6 - see Ephesians 1-3). 

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God is GLORIOUS (Exo. 15:11). God's gloriousness speaks to His magnificence and honor. That magnificence and honor leads to the glorious liberty of God's people, the glorious administration of the Holy Spirit, the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ, the glorious Church, the individual in the church, and glorious appearing of the great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:21, 2 Cor. 3:8, 4:4, Eph. 5:27, Php. 3:21, Titus 2:13). It is of the greatest importance that God is glorious and the He bestows glory on that which is His own.