2 Cor.13:14 – NKJV – The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
2 Cor.13:14 – MSG – The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the extravagant love of God, the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you.
The Trinity is the greatest of all mysteries, there is one God Who has existed from eternity in three persons. How could one God be three persons? For that matter, how could all three have existed eternally? That’s why I say that the Trinity is such a mystery. God the Father, the very fountain of all things, the Son of God Who is the very image and radiance of the Father, and the most mysterious of them all, the Holy Spirit. He is the behind the scene God Who brings life to everyone He touches. The scriptures describe the Trinity, but one God in three persons can only be understood by revelation that comes from the Holy Spirit. Jonathan Edwards has been an enormous help in my understanding of this great mystery. Here is a very important quote from Edwards about the Holy Trinity.
“And this I suppose to be that blessed Trinity that we read of in the holy Scriptures. The Father is the Deity subsisting in the prime, unoriginated and most absolute manner, or the Deity in its direct existence. The Son is the Deity generated by God’s understanding, or having an idea of himself, and subsisting in that idea. The Holy Ghost is the Deity subsisting in act, or the divine essence flowing out and breathed forth, in God’s infinite love to and delight in himself. And I believe the whole divine essence does truly and distinctly subsist both in the divine idea and divine love, and that therefore each of them are properly distinct persons.”
Edwards explains that Jesus is the very expression or understanding that God has of Himself expressed eternally in the second person of the Trinity. This is why John described Jesus as the Word that became flesh. Edwards describes the Holy Spirit as the love enjoyed between the Father and the Son that is so profound that this love is also a distinct person. The Holy Spirit is the love of the Father and the Son, a distinct separate person as the person of mystery in the Trinity. How can any of this be more than a belief or a doctrinal statement? The reality of the Trinity becomes real to us through our personal fellowship with God.
