Day of Pentecost – June 8, 2025
“23 Jesus answered him, ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me. 25 These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.’” 
- John 14:23-26 -
In this passage Jesus is going away, but the Holy Spirit is coming in His place. So, when Jesus says that He and the Father will come to those who keep His word and will make their home with them, how will this happen? The passage implies that it will happen through the presence of the Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit, and together with Him, the Father and the Son will make their home within the hearts of Christian believers. This means that believers today have communion with each person of the Trinity. Moreover, they not only live and move and have their being in the triune God (Acts 17:28), but the triune God also indwells them.
On a deeper level, however, the basis for this communion with God is the fact that the triune God has an eternal communion with Himself. Because the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are each fully God, they are each infinite in their being, knowledge, and power. And for this reason, they exhaustively interpenetrate each other. This means that each person hosts the other two, and each person enters the others as guest. By His very nature, therefore, God is a hospitable and home-making God, having a communion of being, love, and knowledge within Himself. God is therefore a home for Himself and is eternally at home with Himself.
However, to say that God is a home for Himself is to say two seemingly opposite things. First it is to say that God is self-sufficient and therefore needs nothing beyond Himself. Second, it is also to say that since God is self-sufficient, He is capable of creating the world outside Himself. In other words, it is to say that God is both capable of creating the world and also has no need to do so. And yet, God chose to create the world; God chose to create us, and He wants to have a relationship with us. By His very nature, therefore, and also by His choice; God is a home for us and is at home with us. And this is so precisely because, first and foremost, God is a home for Himself and is eternally at home with Himself.

Day of Pentecost – June 8, 2025
“23 Jesus answered him, ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me. 25 These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.’” 
- John 14:23-26 -
In this passage Jesus is going away, but the Holy Spirit is coming in His place. So, when Jesus says that He and the Father will come to those who keep His word and will make their home with them, how will this happen? The passage implies that it will happen through the presence of the Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit, and together with Him, the Father and the Son will make their home within the hearts of Christian believers. This means that believers today have communion with each person of the Trinity. Moreover, they not only live and move and have their being in the triune God (Acts 17:28), but the triune God also indwells them.
On a deeper level, however, the basis for this communion with God is the fact that the triune God has an eternal communion with Himself. Because the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are each fully God, they are each infinite in their being, knowledge, and power. And for this reason, they exhaustively interpenetrate each other. This means that each person hosts the other two, and each person enters the others as guest. By His very nature, therefore, God is a hospitable and home-making God, having a communion of being, love, and knowledge within Himself. God is therefore a home for Himself and is eternally at home with Himself.
However, to say that God is a home for Himself is to say two seemingly opposite things. First it is to say that God is self-sufficient and therefore needs nothing beyond Himself. Second, it is also to say that since God is self-sufficient, He is capable of creating the world outside Himself. In other words, it is to say that God is both capable of creating the world and also has no need to do so. And yet, God chose to create the world; God chose to create us, and He wants to have a relationship with us. By His very nature, therefore, and also by His choice; God is a home for us and is at home with us. And this is so precisely because, first and foremost, God is a home for Himself and is eternally at home with Himself.