I think this is a good place to start but I also think it is spiritual baby food. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think we will ever fully understand the Trinity. It is a God concept for us to wonder about with limited man minds and I’m OK with that. I like that God knows more than I do or else, He’s no longer my God. If you know as much about Algebra as your Algebra teacher and he’s no longer you’re teacher, right? So I find great comfort that I do not know as much as God. However, I do think God invites us to take a closer look to learn more about His heart. I’d like to do this by looking at each part of the Trinity and then I think we’ll see how they work together in a personal relationship with us.

First, let’s look at God the Father. While all of the parts of the Trinity God are always active, it appears there was a little bit of a spotlight of God the Father during the Old Testament years. God decided to answer the call of the Israelites and deliver them from the bondage of the Egyptians and to lead them and make them His people. While they had their ups and down in faithfulness, He never abounded them and proved Himself time and time again.

In Deuteronomy 1:31, they say ““You saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son.” They recalled the loving way that God had carried and protected over them and claimed it as a personal relationship. This is highlighted again in Isaiah when a startling statement is made. The people had always held onto the promise of their father Abraham and  took comfort that they came from a fulfilled promise made. However, the relationship with God they had now meant even more as stated in Isaiah 63:16, “You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us…; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer.” Not only did they look to God but He was interactive in their lives as defined in Isaiah 64:8 “O Lord, you are our Father, We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hands.” And if that is not enough, they claimed to the promise stated by the Psalmist in Psalm 27:10 saying “For my father and mother have forsaken me; but the Lord will take me up”

Obviously, this is testimony of how much God loves His people and wanted a personal relationship with us but we find He was not done yet…

Let’s look at God the Son, Jesus Christ. While there was a relationship there, God wanted to reveal Himself more. Jesus tells us this while praying to His Father in John 17: 26 saying “I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

Now there are several verses we can look at but let me give them to you for your own study instead (John 1:1-2; Matthew 17:5; John 14: 23-24; and I John 4: 9-10) But for the purpose of this column, let me spend our time showing you something else. When we talked about God the Father at our church, we looked at the word “Abba”. Abba is the very word Jesus used to describe God the Father. It means dad in a personal way. When we looked at God the Son, Jesus we learned the word “Logos” which means the expression of a concept or an idea. In this case Jesus is the expression of the love of our Abba. When Jesus knelt down to draw in the dirt beside a woman who was discounted and discarded, we saw the love of a God who says that He will come into garbage pile of our lives to rescue us. Then Jesus called out words of love to rebels, we heard a God who will call out to us no matter what we have done. And when we saw Jesus put his hands on the “untouchables” to heal them, we saw a God who will hold us close no matter what we have done.

Then, we also have God, the Holy Spirit. I don’t know about you but the Holy Spirit sometimes is the hardest on for us to put a face to. You can conger up a mental image of God or Jesus but the Holy Spirit usually comes to our mind as a dove or flames. However, I believe the Holy Spirit is the most personal entity of God to us as His children.

We find in Romans 8:14,16 that “….those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”  With the Spirit inside of us, we find strength, (“But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might…” Micah 3:8) and God’s leadership (Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. Psalm 143: 10). Once we submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit’s guidance we find “the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace” Romans 8:6.

So what does all this mean to us? It means we have a complete, personal God who is crazy about us. In the Old Testament, God opened a relationship with us from Heaven but it was not enough for Him. So then, He sent His Son so He could have a relationship with us face to face and that wasn’t enough. So He sent his Holy Spirit so His heart can be within us. Only once we could be intertwined with God was the relationship available where God’s heart cried out for it to be.

I know this is a lot crammed in a itty bitty space. We have been looking at these points at the Fellowship for three weeks but I do believe it could give us a glimpse of the heart of God for us as His children. He’s crazy about you.

It reminds me of a story that author Brennan Manning shares about a priest from Michigan going to Ireland to visit his uncle. As they were walking along the beech, the priest noticed a grin come across the face of his uncle and said “Uncle, you seem happy.” The uncle said, “Ah, yes, I am happy. You see my Abba is very fond of me.”.

Your Abba is very fond of you – Blessings!