Geoffrey R. Kirkland
Christ Fellowship Bible Church
The SOLITARINESS of God means that God is God alone. There is no one like Him! From all eternity past, God is unrivaled and unmatched. God has no equals and no rivals. None can compare with our God! The true and living God is totally distinct and entirely separate from all His creation.
The song in Exodus extols this: “Who is like you, among the gods, O Lord” (Exodus 15.11)? Psalm 89 says: “Who is like you, O mighty Lord” (Psalm 89.8)? Even God Himself asks: “Who is like me? Let him proclaim and declare it” (Isaiah 44.7). Again, God affirms: There is no God besides me, no savior besides me and no other besides me (Isaiah 43.11; 44.6; 45.5, 6).
From all eternity past, from before the creation of all things, God existed in perfect solitary and exclusive joy. God existed alone in perfect, triune, inter-trinitarian relationship and delight. For God to be solitary in His essential being and perfections means that God depends on nothing and no one for life and for existence. He is independent and self-sufficient. He is wondrously self-contained, self-sufficient, self-relying, self-satisfied, self-magnifying and in need of nothing outside of Himself. It is this most unique and wondrous quality of God’s being that sets Him apart from anything and everything in all the universe!
God perfectly lives in total completeness in His own essential being! He is the source and sustainer of everything. He gives life to all but needs nothing from all because He is perfectly whole and sufficient in Himself. God forever lives as the uncaused cause of everything. He creates by His own miraculous, powerful, irresistible word. He therefore is unique and distinct from His creation.
This is why the prophet Jeremiah exclaimed: “There is none like you” (Jeremiah 10.7)! King David affirmed in prayer: "O LORD, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You” (1 Chronicles 17.20). Ponder this unique and God-magnifying truth today. God is solitary because none can be compared with Him! The solitariness of God defines the grand beauty and exclusive uniqueness of God and impacts all of God’s being and all the attributes and actions of our God.
This reminds us of the many occasions in the gospels when Jesus did a miracle, or taught the gospel and crowds would respond with something like: “who is this” (Luke 9.9; Matt 21.10)? Ponder this today and get lost in wonder and praise of your Triune God. Each member — the Father, the Son, the Spirit — is unique in His unrivaled majesty, in His royal excellencies, unmatched in His perfections, and He sustains everything but is independent from everything. This should cause you and me to rejoice deeply in His essential being. Simultaneously, it should prompt humility in our hearts in knowing that this God — the solitary God — cares about us, gives life to us, is interested in us, and loves us! Trust Him! Rest your soul in Him! Cast all your burdens, your anxieties, your fears, your cares upon this mighty and unmatched Savior! Run to Him afresh today! This solitary God desires and deserves your praise and worship!
