This may be a strange thought to present to so many super strong men and women of faith. I know, at least I pray, each of you have found God in your life. As I sit here reading and watching the sun grow steadily brighter, God puts Himself on my heart.
How many of you have spent an early morning or any part of the day contemplating God and your thoughts of Him?
God, the Father, seems so strong and powerful. The Creator of all things, beyond contemplation. But, maybe with a bit of trepidation because He IS God Almighty. The rule maker.
God, the Holy Spirit, floats at the edges like the wind. Hard to understand and even harder to grasp. A silent flow across the waters of creation – “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters” Genesis 1:1-2. He is the dove coming from Heaven – “and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove” Luke 3:11. How does a soul even come to understand this fiery aspect of God? “And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.” Acts 2:2-3
Then, there is Jesus. He’s easy to comprehend and easier to draw close to. “they shall name him Emmanuel,”which means, “God is with us.”” Matthew 1:23. Yes, He is fully God, there at the beginning with the Creator and “Spirit wind”. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.” John 1:1-3
Jesus may be the easiest to befriend for the simple reason, He is one of us. Immanuel. We can read His words through all the Gospels. Captured in red letters, Jesus’ words and stories speak of the Infinite God in human ways that most can understand.
Jesus is easy to turn to when times get tough because He faced tough times too. He knows the feeling of a skinned knee and a mother’s loving touch. He knows the shiver in the cold, dark night. He gets us, and we can feel that, so He is easy to lean on.
The triune God is reclaiming his kingdom and redeeming all things, including you and me. The gospel has an inescapably Trinitarian shape. The Father has chosen to reveal his love to us through the sacrifice of the Son and the sending of the Holy Spirit.
“With all wisdom and insight he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.” Ephesians 1:8-10
“God is both the goal of our journey and the means by which we find him.” Alister McGrath
God, the Father is Creator but mostly so, He IS THE loving Father. God, the Holy Ghost, is ephemeral and floats about us, hard to catch as the wind, but, easily felt and shaping of patterns of our lives. God, Jesus, the Son, He is one of us and so easily turned to because deep down, we know He gets us. God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit – Trinity, is all of these and soooooo much more.
Spend some time today meditating upon God the Trinity. Not to delve into His depth of being but simply to draw closer to Him Who is three in one.
How do you ‘see’ and relate to God?
“You stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you.” St. Augustine – Confessions