Hello, friends, and welcome to my book club! Today I’m reviewing a Christian life book that I think is highly necessary for anyone who wishes to better understand the nature of God. It’s also the background reading that I did in preparation for the fandom posts I’ve been working on this month. Enjoy!
Summary
Here’s the blurb from the back of this book:
God is self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, sovereign, infinite, and incomprehensible. We’re not. And that’s a good thing.
Our limitations are by design. We were never meant to be God. But at the root of every sin is our rebellious desire to possess attributes that belong to God alone. Calling us to embrace our limits as a means of glorifying God’s limitless power, Jen Wilkin invites us to celebrate the freedom that comes when we rest in letting God be God.
In other words, this book describes in detail the attributes of God and how He is so much bigger, greater, and more of everything — infinitely more– than we could ever be. She also points out how we as humans try to make ourselves be God and take the glory away from Him, both consciously and unconsciously.
Favorite Quotes
God, who is himself uncreated, creates everything. Gathering no materials, pinning no swatches to mood boards, consulting no color wheels, God speaks, and the universe leaps into being. From nothing he creates something. Unlike humans who create by rearranging what exists, God creates simply by the power of his word, and where there was once nothing, something miraculously appears.
p. 45
The past holds for him (God) no missed opportunity. The present holds for him no anxiety. The future holds for him no uncertainty. He was, and is, and is to come.
p. 71
The fact that he witnesses our invisible thoughts before they turn to actions and our words before they are fully formed on our tongues should cause us to think and speak with care. The fact that he sees all yet, against all expectation, stands ready to forgive should awaken a gratitude of the deepest kind, a desire to be the same person in public that we are behind closed doors– a person who thinks, acts, and speaks as one who fears the Lord. A person who understands that the limitless presence of God leaves no allowance for a life of practical atheism–professing that an omnipresent god exists and then living as if he does not.
God sees. God is present. Nothing is hidden. And this is cause not just for vigilance but for assurance, the most blessed assurance the human heart can know.
p. 102
The following posts were brought to you in part by this book:
- George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
- Taylor Swift + Ed Sheeran – Everything Has Changed
- Frozen 2 – Show Yourself
Awe helps us worry less about self-worth by turning our eyes first toward God, then toward others. It also helps establish our self-worth in the best possible way: we understand both our insignificance within creation and our significance to our Creator… Omniscient, eternal, incomprehensible, omnipresent, self-sufficient, self-existent, omnipotent, sovereign, infinite, immutable. No, Psalm 139 is not a psalm about me, fearfully and wonderfully made. It is a psalm about my Maker, fearful and wonderful.
It is a psalm intended to inspire awe.
p. 155, 157
Conclusion
I hope you’ve enjoyed and were encouraged by today’s review of None Like Him by Jen Wilkin. Are you planning on reading this book? What other books in this genre would you recommend?
Happy reading!
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[…] This passage is talking about God Himself rather than the one attribute that is His love, but it still fits with today’s study. Context note: “Sheol” as I understand it is like the underworld, not super positive but not super fire-and-brimstone either. The point being that God is greater and wider and deeper and longer than the sea and the deepest abyss we can possibly think of, and His every attribute, including His love, is done to the uttermost. (Pretty sure Jen Wilkin said something like that… I read her book None Like Him around this time last year and LOVED it! Here’s the review I wrote in case you’re interested) […]