Ten Truths About Godās Absolute Being
God is who he is means he never had a beginning. And that just staggers the mind. Every child asks his parents, āWhere did God come from? Who made God?ā And every wise parent says, āNobody made God. He just was always there. Always. No beginning.ā
God is who he is means God will never end. If he didnāt come into being, he canāt go out of being, because he is being ā absolute being. Thereās no place to go outside being. Thereās only he. Before he creates, heās all there is. Absolutely.
3. God is absolute reality.
God is who he is means God is absolute reality. Thereās no reality before him. Thereās no reality outside of him unless he wills it and creates it. Heās not one of many realities before he creates. He is simply absolute reality. Heās all that was ā eternally. No space. Space didnāt exist. The universe didnāt exist. Emptiness did not exist. Only God existed forever, absolutely and absolutely all.
4. God is utterly independent.
God is who he is means that God is utterly independent. He depends on nothing to bring him into being. He depends on nothing to support him. He depends on nothing to counsel him. He depends on nothing to make him what he is. He is absolutely independent.
5. Everything depends on him.
God is who he is means everything that is not God depends totally on God. All that is not God is secondary, dependent. The entire universe is secondary reality. Let that sink in, because nobody in this city believes that. And if the church doesnāt, youāre just like them. All the universe is secondary. Humanity is secondary. God is primary, absolute first, last, glorious. Everything else is secondary.
6. Nothing compares to God.
God is who he is means all the universe is, by comparison to God, as nothing. Galaxies compared to God are nothing. All the universe by comparison to God is as nothing. Contingent, dependent reality is to absolute, independent reality as a shadow to substance, as echo to thunderclap, as bubble to ocean. All that we see, all that you are amazed by in your land or around the world ā all the world, all the galaxies ā compared to God, is as nothing. If you put God on one side of the scales and the universe on the other side of the scales, the universe goes up like air or dust on the scale. Isaiah 40:17: āAll the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.ā
7. God cannot be improved.
God is who he is means God is constant. Heās the same yesterday, today, and forever. He cannot be improved. He cannot be diminished. Heās not becoming anything. He is who he is. Thereās no development in God. Thereās no progress in God. Absolute perfection cannot be improved.
8. God sets the ultimate standard.
God is who he is means he is the absolute standard of truth and goodness and beauty. Thereās no law book that he consults in deciding what is right. Thereās no almanac to establish facts for God. Thereās no guild, no musical guild, for example, to determine what is excellent and beautiful. Heās the standard. He himself is the standard of the right, the true, the beautiful.
9. God always does right.
God is who he is means God does whatever he pleases, and it is always right, always beautiful, always in accord with truth. There are no constraints on God from outside that he doesnāt will to exist, and thus govern. All reality that is outside of him is subordinate to him. So, heās utterly free. Heās the only free being in the universe, in fact. He is utterly free from any constraints that donāt originate from his own will.
10. Nothing is worth more.
God is who he is means heās the greatest, the most beautiful, the most valuable, and the most important person in existence. Heās more worthy of interest and attention and admiration and enjoyment than all persons and all realities put together, including the entire universe.
ā John Piper <Desiring God>
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