Who Is God? (Part 3): God Is Self-Existent

Where does God come from? Did God have a beginning? Will God have an ending?

It is bad reasoning to even ask, “What is the origin of God,” because origin implies “beginning” and God has no beginning (John 1:1; Colossians 1:16). No one or no thing caused God. God has always been. God always was “wasing.”

Does that blow your mind, or what?

Everything else has an origin, but God. What this does is humble us. There is no room for pride when you consider that the God we serve never began and will never end.

Who cares? What application can this possibly have on me and you? Listen to A.W. Tozer’s answer to that question in The Knowledge of the Holy:

“Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological. Some knowledge of what kind of God it is that operates the universe is indispensable to a sound philosophy of life and a sane outlook on the world scene.” (pg. 27)

This means, as I stated above, that our problems we face in life come back to who we believe God to be. You cannot underestimate the value of studying the attributes of God.

God’s self-existence makes His wisdom unparalleled. God’s self-existence means that He can be trusted. God’s self-existence tells us that He will never leave us, nor forsake us.