What Else Can We Do?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…Then God said, Let us make man in our image, according to Our true likeness….So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.  Genesis 1:1; 26-27

Another awe-inspiring reality about God is His plurality. We read in these very early parts of the Bible that God was having a conversation with Himself, saying, “Let US make man in OUR own image, according to OUR true likeness (Genesis 1:26, emphasis mine). What is this? We don’t know until later, until the New Testament reveals God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But even in these earliest places we do see that there is more to God than we can wrap our minds around. And we later learn that God is One in nature and Three in Person. He is a Trinity…Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I believe it was Augustine who said of this truth, “Try to understand it and you will lose your mind, but deny it and you lose your soul.” Well said!

This leads to Ephesians 1:1-14, the passage that tells us that God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are working together on our salvation from eternity past, through the present and will complete our salvation in eternity future.  Along with being under God’s eternal triple-teamed watchful loving care comes many spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1:3).  Find some time to read this reflectively—feast on these words of life, people of God! 

Ephesians 1 three times repeats that we are to praise your glorious grace, Lord.  What else can we do?  Father… (praise Him).  Son, Jesus… (praise Him).  Spirit… (praise Him).  How indeed You, Triune God, are the first sentence of our lives. 

            Lord, in this new year, let me grow daily in knowledge of You, but not be so caught up in knowledge of You that I forget to praise You. I praise You, Father, Maker of Heaven and Earth! I praise You, Son, My Redeemer and King! I praise You, Holy Spirit, my Comforter and my Guide!