When God Was Alone (MP 1)

GOD was alone in an infinite void;
HE had a desire to be glorified;
Limitless power and love HE enjoyed;
This empty space left HIM dissatisfied!
HE was One Being, but HE could divide
Into the FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST;
Equal pow’r to GOD would in each abide;
Three in unlike roles, with none uppermost!
There is nothing too hard for GOD to do;
Instantly, of all plans, HE chose the best;
From start to end, all details were seen to;
HE knew your name and mine, and all the rest!
Time had not begun when HIS plan was made;
It'll run its span, and remembrance fade!

Scripture Quoted: Psalm 90:2 (NIV)
"Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.”

SPECIAL NOTE; In this poem and commentary series, I am giving my concept of God and His Master Plan for the world. I intend to base it on my personal inadequate and possibly incorrect interpretation of Scripture and science; any mistakes will be unintentional. Please accept what I write as an 85-year-old man’s understanding of God and man after a lifetime of Christian church attendance, a post-doctoral education in mathematics, and a career of teaching, professorship, college deanship, and church staff membership. The series will be chronological, marked by the parenthetical code in the titles—the “MP” means “God's Master Plan”. You are welcome to make copies, for the complete story should be very interesting for Christians and non-Christians alike.

Commentary
When there were no day and night, before time began, there was nothing—no “things” or matter; no energy, such as heat and light; no gases; there was NOTHING, but empty infinite space in darkness or void; but there was GOD.

Where did He come from? I don’t know; He was just there, always; He lives outside of this expanding, racing universe today; when time ends, He will live forever, with believers in Jesus Christ, and He will keep living with them when time and this universe and the history of Man are a dim remembrance. He has always been, is now, and will always be. He is omniscient, which means He knows everything— past, present, future—He knows when even a sparrow falls; He knows every thought in a person’s heart, every one that ever lived or conceived, and the number of hairs on each one’s head. He even knows who will believe in Jesus Christ and who will not.

God is also omnipotent, which means He has all power—there is nothing too hard for God to do. He can multiply Himself billions of times, take the form of a spirit, and live within all people. He is also omnipresent, which means He can be everywhere at once. Everything in man’s universe came from Him; it is not a stretch to think of all things as being of His substance.

There is nothing impossible for God. He can suspend all natural laws, such as making earth’s sun to move backwards. His thoughts are simultaneously multiple and higher than man’s as the stars are above the earth; one day is to Him as a thousand years to man, and a thousand years as a day; He is not bound to linear chronology, and can drink from an empty cup. God’s justice is fair and no respecter of persons; His attributes and qualities are unequaled and can be known to man by the orderliness and beauty of created nature; all His words are true, and He hates sin, which is a man or woman doing anything contrary to His commandments; He created the universe, the earth, all forms of life, including man, and all matter and elements and energies; He loved man most of all, and for man was all things created that were created. He is the Savior and will dwell with all men who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and He is the relentless Judge of all who do not believe in Jesus.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die but have everlasting life.”
(John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
(Romans 10:9)