Attributes of God - Nadia

On the previous blog post, we stated that our group would be linking previous topics that connects with bullying and conflict, and today I'll be talking about one of those topics which is, as you guessed it from the title, the Attributes of God. 

Attributes of God. What is it? It is the characteristics that God has, and let me tell you one thing: God has a bunch of attributes that we should also try to obtain. Here are a list of attributes of God that we would want to focus on: 

1. Lovingkindness
• God's lovingkindness is more than ordinary, even more than extraordinary. There is no love and kindness like His. I know that humans aren't like God, but it isn't impossible to learn something from God's characteristic right? 
• The Scripture speaks of "the multitude of His lovingkindnesses" on Isaiah 63:7. In Psalm 17:7 we read of God's "marvelous loving-kindness". There are many books in the Bible that speaks of God's lovingkindness. 
• How do we apply this in our lives? Well do you know that showing love and kindness towards people would make you feel a lot happier? Seeing them smile from your actions or your words would give you a feeling of satisfaction. Rather than harming people with your words, speak of something nice, speak something lovely. Rather than hurting people with your actions, show your kindness towards people, help people. It isn't so hard. Just remember that you do not want to be treated the way you treat others. 
2. Goodness
• God's goodness is also irreplaceable and nowhere to be found in anyone's characteristics but it isn't wrong to learn from it. 
• God's goodness will last forever. God has goodness stored up for us. Everything from God is good. God is good. 
• Instead of making a horrible impact on people's lives, don't you want to make a positive impact? Make them remember you for your good deeds and not your bad ones. Be a good person. 
3. Mercy 
• God is known to be a God of mercy and grace. People usually would want something bad to happen to the person that has hurt them, but God on the other hand wouldn't do that. He would see everyone equally, loves everyone equally, and still show mercy to everyone even horrible sinners. Sometimes people don't deserve mercy, but God still gives us mercy because He loves us. 
• Instead of wishing horrible things to happen to that one person who has hurt you or even to an innocent person, start being more merciful. If someone accidentally dropped your bottle, or just a little matter, don't hold on a grudge just because of that. Don't hold grudges and start conflict. It's always better to let go and have mercy - it shows how strong you are to be able to let go and forgive. 
4. Patience 
• You can see God's patience from His love towards us. He would never give up on us. He would still keep on showing His love and kindness. Sometimes people would abuse His patience and would continue doing bad deeds and sinning because they would say "He will always forgive us anyway." but the Bible said something about that on Psalms 103:9-11. 
• Instead of being so bad tempered and trying to repay other for their bad deeds, be a better person and ignore the bad deeds that they did. Once you get to do that, you'll feel better about yourselves. 

Those are the four main attributes of God that students should be able to learn from and be a better individual. 

Hope this helps!