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Here are some further passages of Scripture for study and reflection. Always pray that the Holy Spirit will give you insights and understanding, so that more and more you may know God's nature and purposes.

Psalm 145 As you read, ask how far does this psalm reinforce the message of Psalm 111? What new truths does it reveal? Can you find out if these two psalms are penned by the same human writer? If not, do they help us to see that the Holy Spirit was the inspiration for both?
Psalm 148 A psalm of praise to God, the Creator.
Psalm 104 A psalm which exalts God as both Creator and Provider for all that he has made.
Psalm 23 This speaks of God, the Good Shepherd, who watches over his people.
Psalm 146 This tells of God's special concern for those who are in need.
Psalm 91 This reveals God's promises to those who love him.

Spend time, if you can, with each of these psalms. You will find that the Scriptures give us a "sense" of God, not his appearance, but his attributes and character. Just three aspects of our awareness of God can be emphasised at this point.

(1) God is real. He is not the product of human imagination. He is not a fairy tale character, not a mythological creation, made up to embody men's own ideas. He truly exists.
(2) God is holy. He is good, righteous, pure, without any fault. He is perfect in every way.
(3) God is eternal. He encompasses time and space. Also he is unchanging: his attributes are the same, "yesterday, today and for ever."

You will have other characteristics of God's nature, which the writers of Scripture describe. God is wise, and he knows all things. He is loving and compassionate, gracious and bountiful. He is awesome and majestic, mighty and powerful. Did you find, too, that he can be angry against all that offends his perfect goodness and purity? There is nothing contradictory here. It is all part of his holiness.

Does any part of your own nature feel a warming towards the nature of God? Is there, in his character, that which is desirable, and with which you would like to identify? Is this kind of being a worthy goal for our lives? The destination of a journey is a place, somewhere other than we are now. Our life's destination is certainly a place. It is sometimes called "heaven". We can have little knowledge of this, but we can have a knowledge of God. Seeking him, desiring to be like him, wanting to see him face to face, that is a worthy goal, that is both our destiny and our destination.