Sunday, May 30, 2010

Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

It's very simple and very profound:  The role of the Holy Spirit is to reveal to us the face and person of Jesus Christ; the role of Jesus is to reveal to us the face and person of the Father/God He alone knows; what the Father desires is to pour out into us His own Spirit/Person. 

Imagine a 3-dimensional triangle---a huge one, one that we could walk into.  The 3 faces represent the 3 Persons; the interior of the triangle is the energy, or dynamic, of the Father intensely loving the Son and giving Him everything He is, the Son intensely loving the Father and returning everything He is back, with the Holy Spirit the moving (not static) energy between the Two. 

It does not matter through which side we enter; we enter into the dynamic relationship of the Three Persons.  Some love the Son but cannot relate to the Father, but to enter the Son is to immediately be in relationship to the Father.

Some cannot "reach" Jesus; the Spirit must first make Him real to us.  Jesus told the disciples not to leave Jerusalem until they had received "the Gift of the Father."  We, too, need to stay put until the Holy Spirit is poured out on us.  Only then will we know/experience Jesus Christ as real; only then will He be able to show us the Father.  And, as the Holy Spirit is dynamic, His energy will enter us to move us in the will and direction that God has planned for our lives.  That is why Jesus said the only sin that cannot be forgiven is the sin against the Holy Spirit---to refuse His energy is to refuse to know God.

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