In a previous teaching I mentioned how God made us (and the angels) to join with Him in creation, as a kind of cosmic “group chat”. But once, when I used this analogy with kids, one of the little ones realised this meant that there was a time when we didn’t exist, so he wondered: in that time before there were angels and people, was God ever lonely?
An awesome question, and one you can tell flowed from a sincere heart. It gave me a chance to do a teaching on the Trinity, in which I explained that God could never have been lonely because, while there is only one God, there are three Persons within God.
Of course, that made some kids puzzled, and you could see the wheels turning in their brains with the question, how can there be three people in God? So I used an analogy to try and explain it, something I hoped they could relate to: the analogy of a family.
Now no analogy is perfect, and this was no exception. But I think it helped them to understand the inner life of God a bit better, around the most important theme of all: God is love!
Please enjoy the video, and the analogy!
