Our Confession of Faith describes God in Section 1.01 We believe in the only true and living God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; who is holy love, eternal, unchangeable in being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

The descriptive words for God in the Bible and Section 1.01 demonstrate that God can not be made by human hands or constructed through human thought. God is eternal. When the Confession of Faith describes God as “unchangeable in being” it is speaking of a theological concept known as “immutability.” Immutability simply means not changing. In Malachi God says, “I the Lord do not change.” In 1 Samuel 15:29, we read the account of Samuel confronting Saul about his failures as king of Israel, “Moreover, the Glory of Israel will not deceive or change his mind, for he is not a mortal, that he should change his mind.”

Ultimately, the goal of Scripture’s description of God is to remind us that God is above human description, manipulation, and weaknesses. God has created us; we do not create God. A danger that we all share is to begin defining God in terms that are acceptable to us. In a way, we begin to make an idol of God. But Scripture won’t have any of that. 

We come to God and love God on God’s own terms as defined by Scripture. Sometimes we will rejoice in the images and descriptions of God we read in the Bible, sometimes the very same Bible will make us squirm and uneasy because we can’t quite grasp the God it presents.

We must let God be God. We pray and study diligently in order that we might know God and love God deeper.