It is difficult to know where to start on something as huge as this. But lets begin with the wonderful things we find in our theology textbooks under the heading, The Doctrine of God. When we want to know more about God we don’t simply barge into our laboratory, take a sample of God and examine it under our microscope. No! There is a Person to savour. A wonderful Person who should fill our eyes with tears as we take in the facets of His beauty. In our fallen state, you and I get bored with God very quickly and suppose we can sum Him up in a few quick thoughts. Isn’t that what you are doing when you experience disinterest in God. You have an image of God in your mind by which you have judged him to have lost his lustre, and you go on to pursue “more interesting” things. If you are bored with God, may He lay hold of you by grace and press His finger down in your heart where it really hurts, convicting you of sin and granting you a heart of repentance.

Do you not sense the immeasurable loss of value in losing sight of the breathtaking beauty of God? Do you not grieve that the most desirable Being in the universe no longer stirs your little soul? Do you not weep over the fact that you simply can’t see Him and are not moved by His delightfulness? Come to Him and confess this deadness and coldness and lifelessness. Pour out your heart to Him and ask Him to open your eyes to see Him. As you devote yourself once again to seeing the delightful beauty of God as He reveals Himself in His word, consider the following thoughts on seeing the beauty of God. Not only seeing the beauty of God, but seeing the beauty of God in such a way that it moves you to consistent, faithful and satisfying Christian service.

As we study theology, theologians have devised many ways to categorise the attributes of God. One of my favourite systematic theologies is that of Wayne Grudem (with some reservations). He, like many other theologians has used the categories, the communicable and incommunicable attributes of God. When we consider the communicable attributes of God, we are considering those attributes or perfections of the character of God that He communicates or shares the most with His creatures—human beings. His incommunicable attributes are therefore the attributes or perfections of His character that He does not communicate or share with people, or that he communicates less, or shares less with people.

For example, love is a communicable attribute of God. We know this because God has granted people the capacity to love. He has communicated that attribute of His own character with people. He has shared that ability to love with people.