Scots Confession Ic: "One in substance and yet distinct in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. By whom we confess and believe all things in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, to have been created, to be retained in their being, and to be ruled and guided by his inscrutable providence for such end as his eternal wisdom, goodness, and justice have appointed and to the manifestation of his own glory."
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. (Hebrews 1:3)
Thoughts: God the Son is the radiance of God's glory. As the sun is experienced through the glove of the sun, the heat of the sun, and the light of the sun. The Son comes from the Father- is the same substance of the Father, yet different from the Father as the rays of the sun are different from the sun itself yet part of it.
God not only creates. He sustains. It is in the sustaining of creation- that we see God's providential, ongoing care and love. The goal of out being sustained is not for our own comfort, or for the extension of a short life- but for God's glory. In the end, we do not live our lives for ourselves or our comfort, but for God's glory.
Prayer: Sustain me, Lord, that I may glorify you.
The Scots Confession was primarily written by John Knox of Scotland.
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