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The Creator And Sustainer Of The Universe The Attributes Of God Almighty: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” - Genesis 1:1 (NKJV)
And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:” - Hebrews 1:10 (NKJV)
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as an heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.” - Psalms 33:6-9 (NKJV)
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” - Hebrews 11:3 (NKJV)
Creation of the Mankind:
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” - Genesis 2:7 (NKJV)
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” - Genesis 1:26-27 (NKJV)
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” - Genesis 2:2-3 (NKJV)
God is invisible:
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.” - Acts 17:27-28 (NKJV)
God is immutable:
But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.” - Psalms 102:27 (NKJV)
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss, neither shadow of turning.” - James 1:17 (NKJV)
God is everlasting:
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men. For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” - Psalms 90:2-4 (NKJV)
God is omnipresent:
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.” - Acts 17:27-28 (NKJV)
Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.” - Psalms 139:7-10 (NKJV)
Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.” - Psalms 23:4 (NKJV)
God is omnipotent:
For with God nothing shall be impossible.” - Luke 1:37 (NKJV)
But our God is in the heavens: he has done whatever he has pleased.” - Psalms 115:3 (NKJV)
God is omniscient:
O lord, you have searched me, and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off. You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, see, O LORD, you know it altogether.” - Psalms 139:1-4 (NKJV)
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” - Matthew 6:31-33 (NKJV)
God is Holy:
And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.” - Isaiah 6:3 (NKJV)
For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.” - Psalms 5:4 (NKJV)
But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be you holy; for I am holy.” - 1. Peter 1:15-16 (NKJV)
God is truthful:
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” - Numbers 23:19 (NKJV)
God is just:
For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.” - Psalms 11:7 (NKJV)
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” - Galatians 6:7-8 (NKJV)
Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:” - Romans 2:6-7 (NKJV)
God is merciful and gracious:
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.” - Psalms 103:8-9 (NKJV)
Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.” - Psalms 103:13 (NKJV)
Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.” - Luke 6:36 (NKJV)
God is forgiving:
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” - 2. Peter 3:9 (NKJV)
Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” - Romans 2:4 (NKJV)
Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” - Isaiah 1:18 (NKJV)
Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger for ever, because he delights in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion on us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” - Micah 7:18-19 (NKJV)
God is love:
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” - 1. John 4:9-10 (NKJV)
And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.” - 1. John 4:16 (NKJV)
God maintains and manages the World:
The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.” - Proverbs 3:19 (NKJV)
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” - Genesis 8:22 (NKJV)
Thus said the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go.” - Isaiah 48:17 (NKJV)
Final Conclusion:
When the Lord God is our loving creator and ruler over us, we have to fear Him, trust Him and keep His commandments:
Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” - Matthew 22:37-40 (NKJV)
You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shall swear by his name.” - Deuteronomy 6:13 (NKJV)
Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.” - Psalms 33:8 (NKJV)
Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name? for you only are holy: for all nations shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest.” - Revelations 15:4 (NKJV)
Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.” - 1. Peter 5:7 (NKJV)
Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” - Psalms 37:5 (NKJV)
I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help. My help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.” - Psalms 121:1-2 (NKJV)
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.” - Psalms 84:12 (NKJV)
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” - Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NKJV)
The Decalogue First. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.: This commandment emphasizes the concept of monotheism. It prohibits the worship of any gods or idols other than the one true God. Second. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandme...