Nothing But God! Part Two by Michael Podhaczky

In the last blog, the question was asked,

“Do you know that there was a time (an unsatisfactory word) before all of creation when God in the unity of His nature, existing in three persons, dwelt alone?”

We will continue looking at the uniqueness of God who needs nothing and cannot be changed. When we stop and think about it, God is unchangeable. But it can be asked, ‘How is He unchangeable?’ He can change the way that He does things when He wants, but He does not alter in who He has always been, who He is or who he will continue to be.

We need to realise that even when Jesus Christ came to earth to do the will of the Father, it did not change God. Jesus in His ministry added nothing to God, to God’s essence, being or glory by what He did or suffered while on earth. True, Jesus displayed the glory of God to us (Jn 1:1-18, esp. v14); however, He added nothing to God.

“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:14 NASB).

God was honoured by Jesus and dishonoured by people, but His being, and character was not changed.

It is also true that the plan of redemption glorifies God, but this has to do with His revealed glory and work. Consequently, God might have continued as He had always been, had it so pleased Him. He could have existed alone in His unity and never made known His glory through creation or Jesus. But He did because He decided to do so based solely on His own will to make His glory known. It certainly was not out of necessity, any need, or lack or even want. Instead, it was totally out of His deliberate sovereign choice. He was utterly secure and complete in Himself for all eternity before the first thing was created. This is the God that we worship and have been given the privilege to know because He chose to create and then reveal Himself.

Pause in His presence for a moment and think this over…