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The Trinity

June 7,  2009  - Ian

“Three persons but one God” how does that work?? “Christians are stupid to believe in a Trinity and then call themselves followers of one God!” “The word Trinity is not in the bible so don’t believe it”

The above are all comments that I have heard over the years. And they are good questions and comments because the Trinity is not easy to understand. It is a mystery. Yet it is arrogant to say that we can and must know everything about God, otherwise WE would be God – and I am clearly not God. So surely there will be aspects that we don’t and can’t understand about Him. The Trinity is one of them.

But there are many benefits to the Trinity. Let’s think about some of them:

1. God gives himself to us completely. He doesn’t do it by half measures. God the Father rules and God the Holy Spirit dwells within us making us more like Jesus, and God the Son is at the Father’s right hand ruling and interceding for me/us when we fail him. We do not have anything less than God working for us,

2. We work for God himself. Our purpose in life is to give God the Father glory and the way to do that is to acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God (1 John 4:15) and God the Holy Spirit is the one we seek to keep in step with and so do what gives God glory.

3. We can believe without seeing him. When we read of Jesus, we read of God himself. When we imagine what meeting God would be like, it is the same as meeting Jesus. Blessed are those who believed having seen Jesus but even greater blessings will be for us who believe without even seeing him John 20:29 (because one day we will see him).

4. God won’t ask us to explain the Trinity in order to enter into his Kingdom. Thankfully, as even I don’t fully understand it and I have been a student of the bible for a long time. But entry into heaven is based on a living, active relationship with Jesus.  We don’t have to understand him completely as the one who died but resurrected, who is Lord and Saviour. But all these aspects of Jesus give us hope. The Trinity gives hope.

Happy Trinity Sunday.

Ian