The 'Aloneness' of God ....... An extract from my book 'The Bride of Christ - Our Lost Identity'

[Dr Howard Barnes]

The ‘aloneness’ of God

Some time along my journey of discovery about the Bride of Christ and the Bridegroom King, I came to realise that the triune God, in their humility and wisdom had placed within their character a vulnerability that made them so much more accessible to all His creation. God had put the ability for Him to experience ‘aloneness’ within His being.

Aloneness is not to be confused with loneliness for God is never lonely. The relationship between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is completely satisfying. However God has created us in His image and that image reflects the desire of God to express love and to be loved.  The nature of God still reflects the DNA that “it is not good to be alone”. There must be those receiving love and those giving the love.  That is the very DNA of God Himself and so He loves the Son and is loved by the Son and the Spirit. He is both the lover and the beloved. Jesus is His beloved Son. So for the first Adam “it was not good for him to be alone”.  So God decreed that for the second Adam “it was not good for Him to be alone” and He began to prepare for Him a Bride. Until that Bride has “made herself ready” He remains the ‘alone’ bachelor of heaven.

In the light of this understanding I saw new significance in the meaning of John 12 v 24

 “Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remain ‘alone’ but if it dies it produces many seeds”.

Note the word ‘alone’. Here Jesus is referring to His resurrection yet to come and that in order to produce many 'sons and daughters', the many seeds, the Church/Bride, He must also be put in the ground as it were and die....just like a seed must be buried in order to produce more of its kind. He was the first-fruit of a new race, the Church Race and the many seeds that would be produced and germinate were the first fruits of this 'new creation', the Church, which was destined to become His Bride. In order to have a Bride Jesus had to lay down His life for Her. His dowry was His blood. His death, Her life. It was to cost Him everything. When Jesus rose on that resurrection morning He brought many sons and daughters to life in the Spirit and so the Church was born and the life of His Bride had begun.  He was now never going to be single or 'alone' in that sense ever again.

Let us today delight in being a part of this eternal Bride. Let us adore and love Him and serve Him as our Bridegroom King by loving and serving those of the 'household of Faith', His precious Body, and bring His Kingdom's justice and truth to all those who are still outside of His 'Forever Family' and as yet do not know Him.

God bless you all

Dr Howard Barnes (Servant Apostle) 

Co-director of T.O.M Intn'l

www.timeoutmission.org