Your
place in the Circle of Life and Love is as secure as the place of Jesus because
you are in Him. The only way you could be expelled is if the Father and the
Holy Spirit decide to evict Jesus. This very explanation is absurd to the point
of stupidity because our God is one indivisible essence expressed in three
Persons. There can be no separation between the three, or God would cease to
exist. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have brought you
into an irrevocable union with Himself through your adoption in Jesus Christ.
One could easier remove all the salt from all the oceans of the world than we
can be removed from the union we share with the Trinity. We could make all the
stars across the night sky turn black before we could cause our God to turn
back on His decision to eternally love us.
The
doctrine of the Trinity is a necessary anchor in life because, when we see that
relationship, we see our place of origin. We see our home. We see that we are
included and that we always have been.
This
recognition of reality doesn’t just affect the way we see ourselves in
relationship to God. It transforms the way we see others, too. Unless you
believe that the God who is pure love by His very essence willfully chose to
exclude some people and reject others, it becomes very apparent that we all
stand on equal ground when it comes to His disposition toward us. “For God so
loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son,” the Bible assures us.
This
relationship between Deity and humanity doesn’t suggest that everybody is a
Christian, but it does prove that there is nothing left for God to do for us.
He has already done it all. Through Jesus He has drawn us into Himself, and the
only thing left for us to do is to say, “Thank you!” The Judge of the Cosmos
has judged you to be a precious treasure to Him. He doesn’t see you for what
you’ve done but as the person He created you to be. He sees you for who you
truly are—His beloved child! He has taken away the sin that held mankind in
slavery and brought us safely home. (See John 1:29, 1 John 3:5, 1 Peter 2:24.)
Our
Triune God embraced us in eternity past. Later, like a fatal disease, sin broke
out on planet earth but the Antidote to Sin had already cured the cancer in
eternity. Its application in time took place at Golgotha, and ever since then
we can all rest in absolute peace because, as Jesus said, “It is finished.” The
Father was “in Christ reconciling the world to Himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19)
when “through the eternal Spirit (He) offered Himself” (Hebrews 9:14). There is
the gospel message of the Trinity at work to save us from the certain death
that sin brings. Through the joint effort of the Father, Son and Spirit, the
cancer of sin has gone into remission. Now we simply need to believe it and
experience it! (See Acts 2:38, Acts 10:43, Luke 24:47.)
The
finished work of the cross makes it possible for us to look at every human
being as a precious object of God’s affection. If Jesus loves the world, and He
does, and if our Triune God proved His love at the cross, and He did, then that
reality will change the way we relate to people—to all people. If nobody is excluded by Pure Love, the implications of
how that affects our lifestyles are staggering.
- Steve McVey
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