We live in an age where mysteries are only temporary. Science on the move has sought to answer all questions and discover the mechanism and the reason for all. In some peoples minds they have mostly solved every question. That the scientific way of thinking dominates our minds is of no surprise. It has been true every since the so called “enlightenment.” It has after all been very helpful (as I take a break from writing and retrieve my coffee from the microwave). Yet it is incapable of answering every question and sometimes our over-reliance on a scientific way of thinking takes us down the wrong road.
Some mysteries defy our human efforts to contain them or describe them. So it is when we seek to describe God. Our God is incapable of being either completely being known (from where we are now) and fully describing Him. He is unfathomable. So we must first recognize that any attempt to systematically and accurately describe God will utterly fail and the best we can hope for is to some how put a frame around a mystery.
When we talk of the Trinity, we humbly acknowledge and recognize that the best we have done is to create a construct that seeks to describe what has been revealed. While we can proclaim with confidence a description Biblically warranted, we still cannot completely grasp how undeniably and radically different God is from us. We are certainly made in His image, but we are merely a reflection of something more. He has revealed that He is a unity and yet within this unity He is a diversity. We cannot grasp this or completely wrap our brains around how it can be. Yet this is what God has revealed about Himself. To say less is to limit God (even if it is just in our descriptions of Him) and take away from what He has revealed. To say less because we are uncomfortable about our inability to grasp all He is, says more about us than Him!
This week we will look at source of our faith, and with great humility we will do our best to understand who and how our one God is, as we explore the Essential of the Trinity.
Hope to see you at church,
Pastor Chris
