A bit of fun

I AM that I AM

“How on earth can a holy and righteous God know what I thought, did and said yesterday and not kill me in my sleep last night? Why is it that we are here today? Why is it that He has not consumed and devoured each and every one of us? Why, why O God, does your judgement and wrath tarry?”
-Voddie Baucham

There is a doctrine, a belief if you will, that is the most important but most overlooked doctrine of the entire Christian faith. That is, the doctrine of the Trinity.

Although Catholics, Protestants and the majority of the other sects of Christianity hardly ever deny the truth of the doctrine of the Trinity, it is hardly ever expounded. It is never taught, nor is it delved into by majority of people who still have big questions left about their faith; but fail to study the truth that will give them what they need.

Why is it then that the doctrine of the Trinity is so important but so easily overlooked? It’s because it’s basic conceptual nature is easy to understand. Any Christian with any amount of faith finds it easy to believe that God is 1-in-3. He is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Simple.

But we never take it deeper than that. We never attribute more to this doctrine than numbers. Let me explain why it is so crucial to every other doctrine within Christianity.

The doctrine of the Trinity is the base for every other doctrine that exists within the truth. Before the foundations of the world were laid, before you and I were created, before time started, there was the Trinity. God eternally exists (eternally in this case also meaning without beginning) in complete glory, love and satisfaction within Himself. Since there are three person within the Trinity, there is relationship. Since there are three persons in relationship in all things good, there is glory. Henceforth since there is eternal glory within the Trinity there is nothing greater than Trinity itself.

God is not an idolator, He places nothing above Himself.

Let me define some of the attributes of Trinity to help explain this relationship:

God is omnipotent (all powerful). God is omniscient (all knowing). God is omnipresent (He is everywhere, including in, out and through time). God is omnibenevolent (all glorified and lovely). God is also sovereign.

You see if God was omnipotent but not sovereign, man could use God in His power (sovereignty of man). If God was omnibenevolent but not omniscient, He couldn’t express the beauty and love that lies within the Trinity. So on, and so forth.

Now you have a basic understanding of the nature of God and how He relates to Himself. But what’s the big deal? How does this change the rest of Christian doctrine and dogma?

God cannot love others if He does not love Himself.
God cannot extend mercy if He does not have authority.
God cannot give grace if He did not know how to go beyond Himself.
God cannot be the dictate of all things if He is not all powerful.

Everything you know that accummulativly impacts Christianity to it’s entirety is based upon the doctrine of the Trinity. God’s love, grace, knowledge, power, being, beauty, wrath, anger, wisdom and timing is all rooted in the doctrine of the Trinity.

The largest question to me in my mind, is not what God is, but how God is in relationship to man.

It’s not hard for me to believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. It’s hard for me to understand (but do so with God’s grace, ironically enough) that such a God with such a nature would turn His head to look upon me, justify me through the death of Himself on the cross, and accept me as I am into His eternal presence.

I do not have to move to the left or to the right for God to love me. And that’s because He is who He is. He does not need ANYTHING.

I am not anything without Him.

http://prayerfoundation.org/st_patricks_breastplate_prayer.htm