God is a personal God, a profoundly personal God.  And because, as Genesis 1 tells us, he, this personal God created humans--you and me--in his image, we are personal, too, richly personal beings living on a personal planet set into a personal universe.
     And God is a covenantal God, a God of commitment, intentionality and, perhaps most important, promise.  God is a God who remembers, who considers, and who acts, eternally, on behalf of those whom he loves.  God is unfailingly concerned and devoted to the eternal well being of those who long for and call upon him.  It is in God as promise that we find our hope, it is in God as promise we find our meaning.  It is in God as promise that we see the measure of all things.