One of our difficulties is in trying to define God. I believe that in the Scriptures God gives us leeway in this area because there are no words to exactly describe and define God. He is beyond definition and description. Yet there is a desire on our part to know God and to follow after Him. What we know about God is really just a sliver of who God really is.

We have to try to organize what we know into little pigeonholes. That is for our benefit, not God’s. You cannot put God in a pigeonhole. Whatever God is, He is all the time. When we think of the attributes of God, we study them individually, but with God there is no dividing of one attribute from another. 

Whatever God is, He is. When we talk about the unity of God and His attributes, we sometimes think of all the parts of God working together harmoniously. That is an inadequate picture of God. God is not made up of parts. God is God. A man of God wisely once said that God’s attributes are numberless. We can know a few of God’s attributes; and an attribute, as I have explained many times, is what God has revealed about himself to be true. 

Our problem comes when we try to understand God. We work piece by piece, and then we try to put all the pieces together. Again, God gives us leeway in this area. He knows how limited we are. But as limited as we are, God is unlimited.   

Delighting In God - A.W. Tozer