Trinity

by A. W. Tozer

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. (John 1:1-3)

"In this Trinity nothing is before or after, nothing is greater or less: but all three Persons coeternal, together and equal," wrote the authors of the Athanasian Creed. "Equal to His Father, as touching His Godhead; less than the Father, as touching His manhood."

A. W. Tozer observed, "In His incarnation the Son veiled His deity, but He did not void it. The unity of the Godhead made it impossible that He should surrender anything of His deity. When He took upon Him the nature of man, He did not degrade Himself or become even for a time less than He had been before. God can never become less than Himself. For God to become anything that He has not been is unthinkable.

"The Persons of the Godhead, being one, have one will. They work always together, and never one smallest act is done by one without the instant acquiescence of the other two. Every act of God is accomplished by the Triunity in Unity. . .

"When the Son of God walked the earth as the Son of Man, He spoke often to the Father and the Father answered Him again; as the Son of Man, He now intercedes with God for His people. . . That instant, immediate communion between the Persons of the Godhead which has been from all eternity knows not sound nor effort nor motion" (The Knowledge of the Holy, pp. 29-30).

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. . . For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him . . . (Colossians 1:13-15, 19).