GOD FOR CHILDREN

Dear Aliona,

 

I have been thinking about how I might explain to you who God is. When we say “God”, we mean our Father in Heaven. Father God created everything that exists: our world and everything that is alive in it, the sun and the planets in our Solar System, our galaxy the Milky Way, and the entire universe that we see with telescopes in outer space. Father God does not need a physical body. He is a spirit being.

Father God gave birth to His only Son, Jesus. At first, Jesus was also a spirit being. Later Jesus was born as a human being. He grew up in Nazareth in the northern part of what is now Palestine. When he reached the age of thirty-three, he went to be baptized in the Jordan river by John the Baptist. As He came up out of the river, the Holy Spirit of Father God came down from Heaven and came into Him.

The Holy Spirit is a part of Father God that He sent to our earth to live within people. Jesus, as a man, is the first human ever to receive the Holy Spirit. After He arose into Heaven, Father began giving the Holy Spirit to people on the earth who put their faith into Jesus as their Rescuer or Savior from going to Hell after they die.

Now, here is the most difficult concept for us to understand. Father God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are ONE! They are called the Trinty. Oneness means they constantly are of one mind. They think alike. Father God is the Boss. Jesus and the Holy Spirit do whatever He tells them to do. Father has given Jesus the entire earth and its people as His kingdom. He is our King, our Master, and our Lord.

I want to see you soon and talk about God with you. Surely you have a lot of questions to ask of me. 

I love you, Ali, 

Poppi