“In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1:2).

When I came to that verse as I worked on a new Grade 8 Bible course, I had two questions come to my mind:

• How long has God had His salvation plan?
• To whom did He make the above promise

Since God is eternal, all His plans are likewise eternal. Inhabiting the eternal present, God knew man would need redemption and had a plan to offer us that. This truly is mind bending and logic defying for mortals such as we.

How can such a thing be?! I don’t know. But I accept it by faith. The Bible tells me so.

Now notice an additional awesome truth nestled in that verse:

God made a promise “before the world began!”

To whom could He have made that promise?

Since only He is eternal, who else?

I get this picture of the triune Godhead covenanting with Himself (or would you say Themselves?!) to offer salvation to me and you and billions of other humans-not-yet-living. So I borrow from these two verses:

And I imagine this happening sometime before Genesis:

Amazing!