The Holy Trinity
O Blessed Trinity!
O simplest Majesty! O Three in One!
Thou art for ever God alone.
Holy Trinity!
Blessed equal Three.
One God, we praise Thee.
Frederick W. Faber
Our minds cannot fathom the trinity; it's unexplainable. Many have tried. I've heard it explained as an egg with a shell, a white, and a yolk, but you can break an egg and separate each part. However, God is always one, and His parts work simultaneously. We can explain His functions separately, but He is never divided; He is always One.
I and my Father are one. John 10:30
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Genesis 1:26a
If the trinity could be explained in human terms, we would dismiss God's magnificence to commonality. We must refrain from trying to divide Him into separate, stand-alone parts; however, His attributes can be explained and included as different parts of his character. Is your mind spinning now? Mine is! Because He is hard to explain, it gives more credence to His majesty. If we could explain Him, we would begin to idolize something that is not Him. It is human to try to picture Him as we worship, but if you can, refrain from seeing God as human, because He is not. He took on the form of a human in Jesus, but to be unable to see that He was all but a human is blindness; no human could do what Jesus did.
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: Philippians 2:6-7
My worship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit changed, and I will no longer feel the need to worship them separately, but together as the one and only Holy God, the Father, just as Jesus taught the disciples to pray, Our Father, when he taught them The Lord's Prayer.
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. John 14:11
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