God in the Before
Sunday
June 16th 2019 Trinity Sunday (Cycle C)
The tie in
between today’s readings: Wisdom in the Divine Plan
In the Before, the Triune God spoke. “We wish to
form a physical universe from nothing with space and time so that there will be
a beginning and an end. We will
cooperatively establish it’s order and form for the praise and glory of our
name. We wish to reveal aspects of our nature: grace, mercy, sacrifice, love,
and other virtues consistent with our character for our glory. We wish to share
our divine nature to reflect our glory. We wish to create man. We agree. We
have Wisdom (Proverb 8:22). Let there be light...BANG!
...and so it began. Wisdom is the poetic portrayal
of the Trinity in our reading in Proverbs 8:22-31. This section focuses on the
production of the inorganic creation. The coordinated Godhead organized the
constellations and balanced the galaxies like a child’s mobile. The Almighty
hung a beautiful blue bauble on nothing and His Spirit brooded over the waters.
The personified attributes of the Father, the Logos, and the Holy Spirit built
this house we call earth. Wisdom laid the stonework foundations of the
continents. Understanding set the plumbing of the water cycle. Knowledge
installed the air conditioning of the wind and the electricity of the storms.
Like children at July 4th fireworks, the spiritual world shouted for joy at the
glory of the Lord on display (Job 38:7). God stood back and looked at His
creation thus far and said, “Good!”
Psalm 8:4-9 picks up with God’s creation of the
organic world on days five and six. It’s getting late on the sixth day and
there was one more thing left to do. So far, everything was spoken into
existence, but man would be different. It was time for fun in the mud! The
Almighty bent down, fashioned Adam from the ground, and amazingly breathed God
life into his dead shell. He became a living soul! From then on the focus of
the spiritual world shifted to the Earth (a speck in the universe)and to Man (a
speck on the Earth), all because he bore the image of the Trinity. God gave him
stewardship over this world and pronounced it, “Very good!”
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The Fall follows shortly thereafter and the
dramatic battle for the souls of men begins. No surprise, it was the primary
purpose of Wisdom in the Divine Plan at the Before! The Trinity acts in
coordination in Salvation just as the Trinity acted in coordination in the
Creation. The Father elects believers throughout the corridors of time to be
beneficiaries of Christ’s sacrifice. The Son, as the Logos made flesh, comes to
accomplish the necessary redemption. Our reading in John 16:12-15 highlights
the Holy Spirit as the discloser of truth as part of His actions in the
Re-Creation of the born again man. Romans 5:1-5 picks up on the Holy Spirit’s
involvement in shaping us into the image of Christ through adversity.
It boggles the mind to think that we are players
in a love story that started in eternity past and will continue even after God
collapses this universe. The wise and eternal Father knew us and loved us in
the Before. He married us to Jesus who became the Lamb of God slain before the
foundation of the world. From that sacrifice, the Spirit was also gifted to
each child of God as an assurance of eternal life. Even now, we are seated with
Christ in heaven and are endowed with all spiritual blessings. We live in the
already, and the not yet, as we march to the end of time and the completion of
God’s Divine Plan. The Father that loved you then, loves you now, and will
always love you, calls to you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sin. Do not harden your heart against the prompting of the Holy
Spirit. Receive eternal life now! Be part of the plan. Live happily ever after!
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