{"id":4051,"date":"2014-09-25T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/?page_id=4051"},"modified":"2014-09-25T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T21:02:00","slug":"the-trinitarian-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/the-trinitarian-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trinitarian Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trinitarian Vision <\/a>by Dr. C. Baxter Kruger<\/p>\n

From all eternity, God is not alone and solitary, but lives as Father, Son and Spirit in a rich\u00a0and glorious and abounding fellowship of utter oneness. There is no emptiness in this circle, no\u00a0depression or fear or insecurity. The trinitarian life is a great dance of unchained communion and\u00a0intimacy, fired by passionate, self-giving and other-centered love, and mutual delight. This life is\u00a0good. It is right, unique, full of music and joy, blessedness and peace. Such love, giving rise to\u00a0such togetherness and fellowship and oneness, is the womb of the universe and of humanity\u00a0within it.<\/p>\n

The stunning truth is that this Triune God, in amazing and lavish love, determined to open\u00a0the circle and share the trinitarian life with others. This is the one, eternal and abiding reason for\u00a0the creation of the world and of human life. There is no other God, no other will of God, no\u00a0second plan, no hidden agenda for human beings. Before the creation of the world, the Father,\u00a0Son and Spirit set their love upon us and planned to bring us to share and know and experience\u00a0the trinitarian life itself. Unto this end the cosmos was called into being, and the human race was\u00a0fashioned, and Adam and Eve were given a place in the coming of Jesus Christ, the Father\u2019s Son\u00a0himself, in and through whom the dream of our adoption would be accomplished.<\/p>\n

Before creation, it was decided that the Son would cross every chasm between the Triune\u00a0God and humanity and establish a real and abiding relationship with us\u2014union. Jesus was\u00a0predestined to be the mediator, the one in and through whom the very life of the Triune God\u00a0would enter human existence, and human existence would be lifted up to share in the trinitarian\u00a0life.<\/p>\n

When Adam and Eve rebelled, ushering in chaos and misery into God\u2019s creation, the Father,\u00a0Son and Spirit never abandoned their dream, but wonderfully incorporated darkness and sin into\u00a0the tapestry of the coming incarnation. As the Father\u2019s Son became human, and as he submitted\u00a0himself to bear our anger, and bizarre blindness, and as he gave himself to suffer a murderous\u00a0death at our hands, he established a real and abiding relationship with fallen humanity at our very\u00a0worst\u2014and he brought his Father and the Holy Spirit with him. It was in Jesus himself, and in\u00a0his death at our bitter hands, that the trinitarian life of God pitched its tent in our hell on earth,\u00a0thereby uniting all that the Father, Son and Spirit share with all that we are in our brokenness,\u00a0shame and sin\u2014adoption.<\/p>\n

In the life and death of Jesus the Holy Spirit made his way into human pain and blindness.\u00a0Inside our broken inner worlds the Spirit works to reveal Jesus in us so that we can meet Jesus\u00a0himself in our own sin and shame, and begin to see what Jesus sees, and know his Father with\u00a0him. The Holy Spirit takes of Jesus and discloses it to us, so that we can know and experience\u00a0Jesus\u2019 own relationship with his Father, and we can be free to live in the Father\u2019s embrace with\u00a0Jesus. As the Spirit works we are summoned to take sides with Jesus against our own darkness\u00a0and prejudice, and take simple steps of trust and change. As we do Jesus\u2019 own anointing with the\u00a0Spirit\u2014his own fellowship with his Father, his own unearthly assurance, his own freedom and\u00a0joy and power in the Spirit\u2014begin to form in us, while not diminishing but augmenting and\u00a0freeing our own uniqueness as persons. The Spirit\u2019s passion is to bring his anointing of Jesus to\u00a0full and personal and abiding expression in us as unique persons, and not only in us personally,\u00a0but in our relationship with the Father in Jesus, and in our relationships with one another, and\u00a0indeed with all creation, until the whole cosmos is a living sacrament of the great dance of the\u00a0Triune God.<\/p>\n

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The Trinitarian Vision by Dr. C. Baxter Kruger From all eternity, God is not alone and solitary, but lives as Father, Son and Spirit in a rich\u00a0and glorious and abounding…<\/p>\n

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