Luckily, Wilkin gifts us with a discussion of neither of these extremes. She then describes two commonly invoked images of the “God-fearing” woman - the staunch, high-collared progenitor whose likeness might be captured in old ancestral family portrait and the perpetually smiling, always optimistic ‘Suzy Sunshine’ who so dearly loves the Lord. Jen Wilkin leads off by referencing a familiar female favorite, Psalm 31. Wilkin’s aim with None Like Him is to help us “consider the majesty of a limitless God” and to make His “perfections” become “the most rational object of our reverence and awe” while asking us “to stare down our tendency to ask others and even ourselves to be what only God is”. If you’re looking for some new feel-good aphorisms to tell you how special you are as one of God’s created beings, None Like Him: 10 Ways God is Different from Us (and Why That’s a Good thing) isn’t that kind of book. But at the root of every sin is our rebellious desire to possess attributes that belong to God alone.Ĭalling 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.

God is self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, sovereign, infinite, and incomprehensible.

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