Thoughts: God is three yet one. At Jesus' baptism the voice was the Father's the Son was in the water, and the Spirit was represented by both baptism and the dove descending on Jesus. Father, Son, and Spirit were there simultaneously yet they were separate, yet they also were in unity. The Father and Spirit all pointed to the Son in love. God is at His very essence love and unity- so we should make it our goal to love God and neighbor.
Prayer: You are mysterious, yet knowable O God. We know you are love, but have yet to discover why you love us when we are still sinners. Give us grace to love because you have first loved us.
II. Trinity and Incarnation: The Two Central Christian
Mysteries
A. Trinity
The triune nature of God is the first great mystery of the Christian
faith. With Christians everywhere, we worship the only
true God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - who is both one
essence and three persons. God is infinite, eternal, immutable,
impassible, and ineffable. He cannot be divided against
Himself, nor is He becoming more than He has been, since
there is no potential or becoming in Him. He is the source
of all goodness, all truth and all beauty, of all love and all life,
omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The three persons
are consubstantial with one another, being both coeternal,
and coequal, such that there are not three gods, nor are there
three parts of God, but rather three persons within the one
Godhead. The Son is eternally begotten from the Father, and
the Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son. All
three persons are worthy of worship and praise.
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