In the grand and carefully phrased old words of Adam Clarke, God is
The eternal, independent, and self-existent Being: the Being whose purposes and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence: he who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, and most spiritual of all essences; infinitely benevolent, beneficent, true, and holy: the cause of all being, the upholder of all things; infinitely happy, because infinitely perfect; and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made: illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known fully only to himself, because an infinite mind can be fully apprehended only by itself. In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived; and who from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, right, and kind.
~ Clarke’s Commentary, Volume 1, p. 27
… with some earnest thought we can all appreciate what a vast difference it would make in anyone’s life to actually believe in such a God as these words portray. Think of someone whose every action, whose slightest thought or inclination, automatically assumes the reality of the God Adam Clarke describes.
When you do this you will have captured nothing less than the thought of Jesus himself, along with the faith and life he came to bring.