“Let us make man in our image…” –Genesis 1.26
Our God never has been alone. Before creation He did not sit by himself in the universe, incapable of understanding relationship until he had made humanity. No, God has always known perfect unity of relationship within Himself.
Since before the beginning of the world, the Holy Spirit has been lovingly living alongside of God the Father and Jesus. He didn’t just come at Pentecost, and He wasn’t absent from the universe before Jesus came. He has been right in the middle of the dance that God’s been having with Himself for all eternity!
It is this perfect relationship between God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit – what we call the Trinity – that gives us hope in God’s own love for us! God perfectly understands our desire for relationship, and He perfectly fulfills that desire because He has always lived in relationship.
1. Why is it important to affirm that God has always existed as God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and Holy Spirit?
2. In terms of our need for relationship, what does it mean that God said humanity is made in “our” (God’s) image?
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