Who God is

1 John 4:16 says 'God is love'; 1 John 1:5 says 'God is light'; John 4:24 says 'God is spirit'. What does that mean? God is love, God is light, God is spirit.

God is love
To say that God is love does not mean that God has love. It means that his whole being, everything that he is, is eternally disposed to show unfailing pure love towards us.
There is nothing we can do to stop God loving us. For God to stop loving us he would have to stop being who he is, because he is love.
We need to remember this at those times when we think God has stopped loving us because we've blown it and messed up.
For God to stop loving us is for God to stop being who he is.
God is heaps better that what we think.

God is light
The Bible says that God is light. This refers to his majesty, his magnificence, his glory, his power and his truth. All of God is light, but throughout scripture that primarily refers to God's moral character. God is light. God is a moral being.
He doesn't have morals and good manners. God is morality, God is good manners. He will never do anything immoral to us.
He'll never manipulate us, he'll never abuse us, he'll never send us anywhere that he didn't call, anoint and enable us to go.
He'll never require anything of us that we can't do, because God is light.
He's pure integrity, loveliness, beauty and morality. How can we fellowship with such a being? Because of Jesus. God remembers our sin no more because he's so madly in love with us

God is spirit
God is spirit. What does that mean? It means that we will never be able to contact or understand God with our flesh or with our brains. As clever as we might think we are, we could never keep up with God.
God has infinite unlimited intelligence. God's dimension is beyond the comprehension of human IQ.
Does that mean that God is irrational and illogical? No God created reason, logic and rationale. But he operates above these human levels. He is 'super-rational.' Reason has to rest in revelation.
We are created in the image of God, and if God is essentially a spirit being, then on the inside of our bodies we are a spirit.
With our soul, mind and emotions we contact the intellectual, emotional world. With our physical bodies we touch, taste, see, smell and hear the physical world. With our spirit we contact God.
God is spirit. Our spirit has the capacity to comprehend God, not in the language of our brain, but in spirit language. With him we have spirit to spirit communication.
Our spirit has the supernatural capacity to fellowship with God, contact God, comprehend God, commune with God and touch God.
God is heaps better that we think

From: Living In The Grace Of God - Rob Rufus - Publisher: Zondervan Bible Publishers 1997