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Gary's Musings             by Gary Collier

I was asked a question this past weekend, “How can you explain the trinity? How can God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all be separate and yet all be one?”

It’s a fair question that logic dictates can’t be true! God, though, isn’t always logical. Psalms 115:3 says  “But out God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” Isaiah 55:9 tells us “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  In other words God does whatever he wants to and our puny minds have to play catch-up to understand!

My answer to this question was simply “Steam, water and ice.” Think about it - they’re all different and yet they’re all the same at their core.

Oh, there are Biblical answers and theological answers to this question but they can become long and redundant if we’re not careful and confuse the one asking the question instead of helping them. I understand that God is the Father of all things, that he created all things in heaven and earth. I understand that He sent a part of himself down to earth in human form – Jesus – so that He, God the Father, would be able to be “touched with the feeling of our infirmities” (Hebrews 4:15). I understand that Jesus, in his human body, was limited in how many people he could be around at any given time. God knew this ahead of time and sent another part of Himself, the Holy Spirit, to dwell in every believer’s heart who has sought God’s forgiveness and then asked for God to fill their heart with the Holy Spirit. This allows God himself to be with us 24/7/365, wherever we go, whatever we do – what a blessing!

I wonder why people think that the idea of the trinity – one God, three forms, yet all still are one – is so far fetched. If there really is a God and he is who he claims to be in the Bible, then He has no boundaries, no limitations and He doesn’t have to explain what, how or why He does what He does!

No wonder Isaiah wrote “his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The prince of peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)

Notice that Isaiah capitalized every one of those titles! In that one verse he gives Jesus five titles… and yet he was one man. How much more reasonable should it be that God – the beginning of all things – could reveal himself in three forms and yet be one God?

Rev. Gary Collier is pastor at Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church located at 791 White Pond Rd. in Lee County. He can be reached at garybcollier@gmail.com or by calling 854-3003. You may access and share “Gary’s Musings” by going to www.cshcl.com .

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