First of all, our God is the God of the Trinity. The One God is triune in Persons, He is the Trinity – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God, and all three of them are one God. Why are the three Persons one God? Firstly, because They are one in Their mutual Divine love. Secondly, because all the Three have one common Divine nature. The Holy Fathers made the following comparison: if there are three lamps burning in a room, then the light with which they fill the room is one and the same in its nature and in its action, although it comes from three different sources. And thirdly, the Persons of the Trinity are one, because they are not separated by anything: neither by Their will, nor by Their action, nor by space, nor by time.

The next attribute of God is omnipotence. Our God is God almighty. This means that He is not bound or limited in His actions and can do absolutely anything He pleases. Just as a writer has complete power over his novel, over its plot and the fate of his characters, so the Lord has power over His creation, that is, over everything that exists in the universe. A writer in a novel has power over the life and death of his characters, he can, for example, make it so that some hero, falling from an airplane, will not crash, but will remain alive and continue to act in the novel. In the same way, the Lord in His work (and His work is our real world) can do whatever pleases Him. And there is nothing surprising in this, because the Lord Himself established the laws of the material world, and therefore He can violate them whenever He wants. However, He has full respect for natural laws and does not violate them often.

The next of the basic attributes of God is omnipresent. God is everywhere, and there is no place where God is not present. At the same time, one should not think that God is spread out in space like air or radio waves. No, for His presence He needs neither place nor volume, but by His powers and energies God is wholly present in every point, in every place, in every thing. These Divine forces and energies in our world support everything, penetrate into everything, animate everything, govern everything, renew everything.

It should also be remembered that God's omnipresence applies not only to space but also to time. Just as there is no place in space where God is not present, so there is no moment in time where He is absent. God is not bound by time, as we are. A person is always at only one point in time, exists only at one moment. We exist only today, yesterday we are no longer there, and tomorrow we are not yet there. Moreover, we are gone in ten years or in the century before last. But the Lord does not depend on the conditions of time and is present at every point of it – in all ages, days, hours and minutes of world history. He looks at the present day in the same way, with the same look, as well as at any other day in the life of an individual or the existence of the world as a whole. "God is not subject to time: time does not exist for God," says St. Ignatius Brianchaninov. "That which is to be accomplished is before the face of God that has already been perfected."

The next attribute of God is His omniscience. Nothing is hidden from God, He knows everything. In fact, this property logically follows from omnipresence: if God is present in every place and at every time, then, of course, there is nothing in all existence that is not known to Him. The Lord, for example, knows the future precisely because He looks at it in exactly the same way as He looks at the present.

The next attribute of God is wisdom. God created our infinite and complex world, and He alone knows the meaning of every thing and every phenomenon, their purpose, their ultimate goal, and the ways to achieve that goal. "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways... but as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts," says the Lord in the book of the prophet Isaiah. This is quite understandable: after all, God is the absolute first cause of all existence, and all the laws of existence were established by Him. Whether the laws of the material world or the laws of morality, the laws of word and concept, of meaning and reason, of beauty and perfection, of order and harmony — all this is established by Him, all this is "from Him, by Him and to Him." In all things, without exception, He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. God miraculously and incomprehensibly provides for everything that exists in our world. According to the Catechism, God's Providence consists in the fact that God preserves the existence and powers of all that He has created, directs them to good ends, promotes every good, and stops or corrects the evil that arises through separation from the good and turns it to good consequences.

The wisdom of God is scattered everywhere, throughout the universe, from huge star systems to some microscopic bacteria. How wisely man is made! Or animals! Take, for example, a giraffe. The giraffe has a very long neck, and in order to pump blood so high, it has a powerful heart in its body that can create high pressure. However, when a giraffe bends down, for example, to water, there is a danger of cerebral hemorrhage, because the pressure in the head increases sharply. And the giraffe would inevitably die if there were not several special valves in the blood vessels of its neck that, when it drinks, close and prevent blood flow to the head. Thus the giraffe's neck is wisely arranged.