Friends,
todays Gospel contains the first biblical presentation of the Trinity.
“After he was baptized, he came directly out of the water. Suddenly the
sky opened and he saw the Spirit of God descend like a dove and hover
over him. With that, a voice from the heavens said, ‘This is my beloved
Son. My favor rests on him.’”
This
is the first time in the Bible that the tri-personhood of God is on
display, making it one of the most important theophanies in Scripture.In
love, the Father sends the Son into god-forsakenness, into the muddy
waters of our own sin, and the Spirit is the love which connects the
Father and Son, the love in which the Father sends and in which the Son
is sent.
So
now we see that the God who is just and demanding (and those both
remain in place) is, at bottom and through and through, love.
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