Unity

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:4

The Hebrew word “echad” gives the sense of unity from multiple parts.  It is this word that is used when God tells us that a man and his wife are to become one (echad) flesh.  The Bible is consistent, there is but one God, yet God consists of three persons have distinction from each other, yet are co-equal, co-eternal, infinite in unity and all sharing the same essence.  While this certainly is more than our minds can handle that is a good thing.  It is the fact that God, in His very nature is not fully comprehensible to us is further evidence that God created man…not the other way around.  When a man invents a god, he invents a god he can fully understand and manipulate.  The God who created man designed us to know Him, and respond to His love.  God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit dwell in eternal unity, order, and perfect fellowship.  The character of God is known to us through that unity.