My image of God

I recently heard Dallas Willard talk about the importance of our image of God. So I asked myself, what are five things I know about God, not from personal experience or from what other people have said, but as recurring themes I have encountered in reading Scripture. Here is what I came up with:

1. God is holy.
2. God is single-mindedly bent on making us holy. As I see it, sin is a cancer on our soul. Holiness is the absence of this cancer, i.e. a spiritual clean bill of health. While the cure passes through Christ, each individual must submit to treatment to become holy. This treatment, like its medical analogues (surgery, radiation, chemo, etc.) may at times be very unpleasant, but the disease is fatal and the treatment necessary. Success is guaranteed, provided the patient perseveres.
3. God is a refuge.
4. God is our helper.
5. God is not proud. In the old testament God repeatedly depicts himself as a cuckold—consumed by jealousy, often determined that his cheating wife will have to pay a price, but always, ultimately, welcoming her back. Christ not only died for our sins, but also bore the shame of being mocked and killed in a way that made him cursed according to scripture.