“Thou…hast loved them, as thou hast loved me” (John 17:23).
“As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you” (John 15:9).
The love shared within the triune Godhead is shared with us humans!
Since God “exports” His “internal” love, will He in me not also export His love?
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“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:
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:
“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved…” (Mark 16:16).
And I imagine this happening sometime before Genesis:
Amazing!