The Source of All Things
By John Gavazzoni

It goes without saying, of course, that God is the Source of all things. But what is rarely understood is that what is going on within God is the active source of the whole, the all, all things, not only of the all's existence, but of its continuing quality of life, its cohesion, and its destiny. To share in the relational dynamic within the heart of God, is the destiny of all creation. If one could be, as the saying goes, a fly on the wall of Deity's inner activity, one would be struck with awe at the glorious, relational intensity that is the very constitution of Deity, of the Family which is God.

God, being a Father to Himself, a Son, and a Son to Himself, a Father, by the shared Deity of Their Holy Spirit, with that relationship being ablaze with glorious love is, I dare say, is what makes everything tick. The Mormon Church, as I recall, teaches something along the line of, "as we are, God once was, and as God is, we someday may be." But that's a distortion of the truth that all mankind shall be given to share in all that God is, with all creation being drawn into that holy circle.

Let us consider for a moment the matter of dimensions. In the matter of dimensions, the mind naturally thinks of height, depth, length, and breadth, and Paul wrote in those terms when encouraging his fellow saints to consider the majestic magnitude of the love of Christ. But, of course, those dimensions cannot be thought of in literal spatial terms. The love of Christ, which reflects the love of the Father, exists and is operationally active in that dimension that is the source of all other dimensions, i.e., the dimension of relationship.

We cannot avoid the factor of spatiality in the created universe. There is a space between things. Scientists tell us that the universe is, in fact, made up mostly of space, and though we speak of empty space, there really is no such thing. Space is not empty, but space, in a sense, involves a separation of the universe's solids. Yet while space, in one sense, separates things, in another sense, it connects things. So, it is within the innards of God. God is reflected by His universe, by the all of His creation. Deity lives in the dimension of pure, incorruptible relationship. The space in the God-dimension is filed with the Holy Spirit. That Spirit is Deity relating within Itself, to Itself, in Perfect Love.

There's an old worship chorus sung mostly among classic Pentecostals, that goes, "It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, full of glory, full of glory. It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, and the half has never yet been told." Yes! That says it beautifully

Do you, possibly, imagine...as I once did....of God up there, out there, before creating all things, existing surrounded by space, and that space being somehow other than Himself? Before the creation of all things, there was only the dimension of that which abides: faith, hope, and love, with the greatest of the three being love. Yes, within God, faith, hope, and love are always going on. Perfect, never-failing faithfulness abides there, along with a delightfully fresh expectancy of more to come out of the well of perfect love. That's where we abide in union with Christ.

In what is called our Lord's great high priestly prayer, recorded in Jn. 17, Jesus spoke of this dimension. He, spoke of being in the Father, and the Father in Him, and we in Him. That's our dimension of Being. Oh, that you might see that the goal of salvation is to bring us into participation in the goings on within that Divine Dimension....nothing less than that. The mystery of iniquity opposes this reality, and God, Himself, deliberately arranged a role for that contrariety in His plan. The adversarial, the contrary, oppositional, hate-filled enmity was given a role for the ultimate purpose that the unfolding of the effulgence, the full-radiance of the Love that God is, is being shared with all creation.