Thursday, January 13

God With Us in the Son and Spirit

The Son and the Spirit are both ways that God keeps his promise to be ‘God With Us.’ But the Son is God With Us in the direct, personal sense that he is the eternal Son in human nature. The Spirit, on the other hand, is God With Us as the eternal Spirit dwelling among us as in a temple. The Son is God With Us by becoming one of us, but the Spirit is God With Us by living among us.

— Fred Sanders
The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 139