We can debate it. We
can dispute it. Or we can delve into
this mystery. Father. Son. Holy Spirit. One God.
Trinity
A family! A family not altogether unlike your family and
mine, where we get to experience nibbles of heaven on this side of it. Unfortunately, the flip side of this is true - nothing quite like family to effect hell on earth. Broken people mutilating each other in the name of... love? Even the best families on the best day are just a fogged-up,
cracked mirror of what we see as an uninterrupted flow of love and honor, truth
and glory between Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The entry point for us into this flow, into this mystery - the cross of Christ. The Cross is the place of both shame and salvation where sinless Son of God
was accounted as sinner in your stead and mine. It still boggles my mind...
Three days later, the tomb was empty. Father’s holiness and
justice satisfied - one sacrifice. Once for all.
What happened several weeks later is not nearly as advertised as Christmas and Easter, but it forever altered history
AND our lives. Before His suffering,
Jesus gave a promise to His grieving disciples:
It is to your
advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come
to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. John 16:7
There is something better than having Jesus with them?!!!
When the Holy Spirit finally arrived, He didn’t come as a celestial visitor. He came as permanent resident, making Himself at home inside all those who receive His gift of life. God Himself, inside you! Inside me?!!!
When the Holy Spirit finally arrived, He didn’t come as a celestial visitor. He came as permanent resident, making Himself at home inside all those who receive His gift of life. God Himself, inside you! Inside me?!!!
Do you not know that
your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from
God, and you are not your own? I Corinthians 6:19
We are all homeschoolers here. One Teacher taking us from Kindergarten
class of Faith until we graduate with honors (or not!) in the arms of Christ .
The Helper of all the Yelpers.
The Gentle Hammer - for He is the Spirit of Truth and truth hurts sometimes.
The Connector-of-the-Dots.
The amazing Baker of Soul Bread, like the Subway guy who converts my crumpled $5 bill into a foot-long yummy spicy deliciousness on crusty Italian, taking the words from the pages of my old, beat-up Bible and, Poof! turning them into life and and food - real food - for my heart and soul. How He does it? A mystery.
On those days I feel like the luckiest fool on earth, like I hit a jackpot - getting this Three-in-One deal for the taking. Most other days I marvel how my grief, or pettiness, or anger, or weariness seems to swallow this incomparable Reality... and I am like a blind man groping in the fog... until I lay hold of Him... . For I know, just one of them would have been enough - more than enough... but Three-in-One. Nothing stands a chance against that kind of love.
The Helper of all the Yelpers.
The Gentle Hammer - for He is the Spirit of Truth and truth hurts sometimes.
The Connector-of-the-Dots.
The amazing Baker of Soul Bread, like the Subway guy who converts my crumpled $5 bill into a foot-long yummy spicy deliciousness on crusty Italian, taking the words from the pages of my old, beat-up Bible and, Poof! turning them into life and and food - real food - for my heart and soul. How He does it? A mystery.
On those days I feel like the luckiest fool on earth, like I hit a jackpot - getting this Three-in-One deal for the taking. Most other days I marvel how my grief, or pettiness, or anger, or weariness seems to swallow this incomparable Reality... and I am like a blind man groping in the fog... until I lay hold of Him... . For I know, just one of them would have been enough - more than enough... but Three-in-One. Nothing stands a chance against that kind of love.
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