Before

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  But what happened before that?  People always wonder what God was doing before creation, before time began, often scoffingly speculating that He was just hanging around out there in the void for innumerable eons until just a short while ago.  The Bible doesn't tell us, specifically, what God was doing...but it does give us a few glimpses.  Nothing was going on in time and space, but there was much going on in God.

 

"You loved Me BEFORE

the foundation of the world."

Jesus, in John 17:24, NKJV

 

Before God started start, there was a wonderful relational existence happening between the Father and the Son, and I believe we can also say the Spirit.  Before the beginning, they three were one and together, separate and inseparable, distinct and indistinguishable.  They were the same, but different, and between them all there was the eternal love upon which all truth is built.

 

"Now these three abide," Paul wrote, "faith, hope and love.  But the greatest of these is love."

 

Jesus said the greatest commandment was love.

 

He also said, "Greater love has no man than this:  that he lay down his life for his friend."

 



Jesus knew the love of the Father, because they shared this amazing relationship together from all eternity.  Jesus spoke of the glory, the magnificent excellence, in which they existed before the world began, and he spoke of the love.  And these were the things He knew He had come to reveal during His brief sojourn on earth among men--the creation that had been made through Him and by Him and for Him.  Just as they were made for Him, He also had been made for them, and given to them, by Almighty God.

 

"For God so loved the world

that He gave His only begotten Son,

that whoever believes in Him should not perish

but have everlasting life."

John 3:16, NKJV