1. To save us from our sins
2. To reveal God's life to us
3. to give us divine life

• Studying God's attributes help us transition from a more self-centered approach to God (what he does for me) to a perspective of asking, Lord, what is your mind in this situation? what is your mind about life? etc.
  
  
• God is worthy of all praise and adoration. He is the One that always was, is and will be. The One who has a whole life within himself, the one who holds all things in being. He is worthy because of who he is. But He is such a generous God that he does want to give us a share in his Divine life.
  
  
• God asks something very radical of us - he asks for everything! And he means everything!! The extent that we give him the time to show us that he's so worth everything, is the extent to which we will entrust our lives to him. Studying God's attributes helps us know God, and thus entrust our lives to him.
  
  
• As we go to God we change. God revealing himself to us is like no other information in the world. We can learn about other things and we can have knowledge and a passion for a particular topic. But when we encounter Jesus Christ, something in us changes. Studying the attributes is an encounter with Christ. It is finding out who God says he is. This knowledge has the power to heal us, deliver us, encourage us, challenge us, etc.
  
  
• We all recognize that there is a battle within us. We are pretty self-centered and unless we are taking time to allow God to reveal himself to us we will drift away from him. We will feel distant from him and rely more on our limited thinking than on his unchanging Word. Studying the attributes of God helps us "dethrone" ourselves and let Christ reign as Lord of our lives.

Jesus said to his disciples, Mat 13:10 -11 "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them…" We are Jesus' disciples and he promises to reveal himself to us. He only asks that we humbly seek him.