Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessed Trinity!
Trinity, a season in which we celebrate the three persons manifested by God. Three ways of being the one and only God. When one says it or writes it, it seems quite simple but to many when we talk of the three persons in the God-head they may assume we are talking about three gods and not One God.
On the face of it the Trinity seems to be perfectly straightforward; God is one God manifested as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Each being in God is a separate, whole being and each being is God at the same time. One God but three beings - simple! Or Not! The more I have thought about the Trinity over the years of study, prayer and experience I have come to understand it by thinking about it in very simple terms. Here’s an example: Each of us is unique. There has never been another human being exactly like you or me and there will never be another you or me in quite the same way as we are. Yet each of us fit perfectly into the human race and into God’s creation. We form part of that creation and help complete the unity which God has designed. That unity would not exist without us and that unity will keep expanding to contain all of God’s creation until the end of time. Creation contains more beings than the Trinity but like the Trinity we are all needed in it to make it whole.
If we can think of the Trinity as a whole with different aspects to it; perhaps it becomes easier to understand. God is the Creator, the Spirit and the Christ. These three beings hold together because they show us different faces of the one God and they hold together because of love.