God's Subsistence of Himself

In thinking about God’s subsistence, or life, which is in and of Himself, it will also require that we think about God’s aseity. “God’s aseity is the divine attribute of uncaused existence.” “It is the essence of God to exist.” (Definition taken from the book Confessing the Impassible God, P. 440) God is independent of His creation (that is He is transcendent; above and outside of it). And yet He is also immanent (that is, He is present to, and active within His creation).