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“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty." Malachi 3:1 NIV
Here God is talking about sending John. Although this is in the Old Testament we find that God is saying there is someone to be sent to prepare the way for HIM, to announce the coming of God. In the New Testament we find out this is John and God will come as Jesus. Later Jesus will proclaim in Matthew 11:10-15 that John is who God was talking about in this passage. Isn't it wonderful that God can make promises and covenants with us that we will never see but in the future it greatly helped people! What is God saying to you now that may be used in the future?
I know this is not what the verse is getting out, but I currently relate to one part. See I'm in a History of Christianity class and we have discussed the Trinity and different views on it. I'm still confused about what I'm supposed to believe. I KNOW that it's God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and I truly believe that! But how do you wrap your mind around 3 people all in 1? I mean to us it may seem impossible! In todays verse God says 'prepare the way before me' which is the Savior he promised Adam and Eve, Jesus who came many years later. This is just one verse we can look back on and see the connection between God and Jesus, God was his father, but God was Jesus as this verse I think clearly points out.
I never questioned how the Trinity worked before my History of Christians class this fall, but since we've discussed it I continue to think about it. How does the Trinity work exactly? With children's missions this is especially hard when kids wonder about this! One way my mom has explained it to me is that God is like my dad: he's my grandma's son, my moms husband, and my dad BUT he's still ONE person. In one article we read for class we discussed one opinion of God being a person who wears 3 different hats: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit. And sometimes he wears one, others two hats, and at times all three. This makes it a little easier to understand the complexity of the Trinity, but it's still not a full explanation because God's not more one than the other...
How do YOU view the Trinity?
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