Undivided Trinity

"And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost." (Luke 23:46)

Even when Christ Jesus died on that unholy, fly-infested Cross for mankind, He never divided the Godhead. As the old theologians pointed out, you cannot divide the substance. Not all of Nero's swords could ever cut down through the substance of the Godhead to cut off the Father from the Son.

It was Mary's son who cried out, "Why have you forsaken Me?"

It was the human body which God had given Him.

It  was the sacrifice that cried, the lamb about to die.

It was the human Jesus. It was the Son of Man who cried.

Believe it that the ancient and timeless Deity was never separated; He was still in the bosom of the Father when He cried, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit" (Luke 23:46).

So the Cross did not divide the Godhead - nothing can ever do that. One forever, indivisible, the substance undivided, three persons unconfounded.

Oh, the wonder of the ancient theology of the Christian Church! How little we know of it in our day of lightminded shallowness. How much we ought to know of it.!

Lord, may I unhesitatingly believe what I can't begin to comprehend. You are an awesome mystery. Amen

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Confident Assurance

"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power." (Hebrews 1:3)

I wish I could comprehend everything that the inspired Word is trying to reveal in the statement that Jesus, the eternal Son, is the "brightness of [God's] glory, and the express image of his person" (Hebrews 1:3). This much I do know and understand: Jesus Christ is Himself God.

We live in a society where we cannot always be sure that traditional definitions still hold. But I stand where I always have stood. And the genuine believer, no matter where he may be found in the world, humbly but surely is convinced about the person and position of Jesus Christ. Such a believer lives with calm and confident assurance that Jesus Christ is truly God and that He is everything the inspired writer said He is. He is "the brightness of [God's] glory, and the express image of his person". This view of Christ in Hebrews harmonizes with and supports what Paul said of Jesus when he described Him as "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature" (Colossians 1:15), in whom "dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (2:9).

I worship my Lord Jesus today, Father God, as being equal and the same in person and in glory with You. Thank You that I can always be certain of who Christ is, the very image of You and Your glory. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~