Three-In-One
Posted by Karah
Pause
Focus your mind on God and who He is. Listen or sing your favorite worship song to Him as an act of worship. Try “The Earth s Yours” by Gungor (Beautiful Things, 2010).
Read through Genesis 1:1-27 in your Bible, then focus on verses 26-27.
“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.” —Genesis 1:26-27
Ask yourself:
What do these verses reveal to you about the main character of Scripture? Explain.
Focus on verses 2, 26, and 27. How do these verses suggest the Trinity? Why is that important?
Now, read Colossians 1:15-20 in your Bible.
What was Jesus’ role in creation? Explain.
Why is it important to recognize that the God who created the world and set redemption into motion is a three-in-one God?
The Point
The Author of the story is our threefold God. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were all active in creation—and redemption.
Respond
It’s easy to think that Jesus and the Holy Spirit didn’t enter the story until much later, but it is our threefold God—Father, Son, and Spirit—who set the world into motion, beginning with creation.
Praise God in all three Persons for their involvement in creation and the story of redemption.
Think about your personal story of redemption. Thank each Person of the Trinity for their role in bringing you into a relationship with the Father through the Son, empowered by the Spirit.
For further study, read John 1:1-13.
Behind the Story
The original audience of Genesis 1-2 would not have recognized Genesis 1:26-27
as a reference to the Trinity, since that concept wasn’t fully revealed until later in redemptive history. While theologians caution that we cannot derive the entire doctrine of the Trinity from one use of a plural pronoun, we can derive that there is plurality within the Godhead. This passage is the first of four Old Testament passages where the plural is found in divine dialogue. Genesis 3:22, 11:7, and Isaiah 6:8 are the others.
GODHEAD (n.) =Word used to refer to the three Persons of the Trinity, God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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