Meditation: Isaiah 48:16; Luke 3:22; John 14:26; 15:26; 1 Peter 1:1-2; Jude 2-3
As God reveals Himself through the pages of Scripture, we learn that He is one God and there is no other. But as Scripture unfolds the story of God, the realization dawns that this God is unlike anything we have known. He is One God and yet this One God is Father, Son, and Spirit. Not 3 separate gods. Not 1 God who is sometimes Father, sometimes the Son, sometimes the Spirit. But one God that is Father, Son, and Spirit. Confused yet? Join the club! It is impossible, while we remain within our human limited understanding, to wrap our heads around this truth about the nature of God. But that’s okay. We can fully trust in, even if we can’t explain or can’t understand, the God that is revealed to us in Scripture.
This God that is Father, Son, and Spirit is One God, meaning that they are unified in all ways: essence, attributes, purpose, actions, and will. All the attributes we have looked at over the last month make up all of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The purposes, actions, and will of God are the purposes, actions and will of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
As you give thanks today for the Giver of Gifts, give thanks to the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit!
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