thaiv
28th January 2004, 11:06 PM
The Bible offers a clear picture of the Triune God as life.
God is one, yet three, coexisting and coinhereing from eternity to eternity. The reason that God is triune is so that He could flow Himself to us as life.
God the Father is the source.
Just as a fountain is the source of a river, so the Father is the source and origin of life.
Psalm 36:8-9 says, "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life."
God the Son is the course.
Just as a spring is the emergence and expression of a fountain, God the Son is the emergence and expression of the eternal life. God the Son is the expression and embodiment of God the Father. (Col 2:9, John 1:18).
God the Spirit is the transmission.
Just as a river transmits the content of the spring, God the Spirit is the transmission of the eternal life of God in Christ to humanity.
John 7:38-39 says, " He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified."
In resurrection Christ became the life-giving Spirit (but did not cease to exist as the Son because the Father, Son, and Spirit are all eternal) to flow His eternal life into us (1 Cor. 15:45).
The reason why God is triune, is so that in the Spirit he can flow God the Father in Christ to us to be our life and everything. When the Spirit comes, the eternal life which was embodied in Christ is made available to us.
In our experience we enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. He enlivens our spirit and spreads to our soul to transform us.
God is one, yet three, coexisting and coinhereing from eternity to eternity. The reason that God is triune is so that He could flow Himself to us as life.
God the Father is the source.
Just as a fountain is the source of a river, so the Father is the source and origin of life.
Psalm 36:8-9 says, "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life."
God the Son is the course.
Just as a spring is the emergence and expression of a fountain, God the Son is the emergence and expression of the eternal life. God the Son is the expression and embodiment of God the Father. (Col 2:9, John 1:18).
God the Spirit is the transmission.
Just as a river transmits the content of the spring, God the Spirit is the transmission of the eternal life of God in Christ to humanity.
John 7:38-39 says, " He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified."
In resurrection Christ became the life-giving Spirit (but did not cease to exist as the Son because the Father, Son, and Spirit are all eternal) to flow His eternal life into us (1 Cor. 15:45).
The reason why God is triune, is so that in the Spirit he can flow God the Father in Christ to us to be our life and everything. When the Spirit comes, the eternal life which was embodied in Christ is made available to us.
In our experience we enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. He enlivens our spirit and spreads to our soul to transform us.