Jonathan Edwards, one of America’s greatest thinkers and theologians in “An Essay on the Trinity” from “Treatise on Grace and Other Posthumously Published Writings” (Cambridge UK 1971) provides a remarkable description of how the three persons of the trinity relate to each other.
Summary: The Father is God existing in the primal, unoriginated, most absolute manner. God the Son stands forth eternally as a work of God’s THOUGHT (thinking). And God the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son as an act of their JOY (feeling). They are co-eternal and equally divine.
Also John Piper in his book “Think” says it well: God’s existence as a Trinity of Persons is the foundation of human nature as head and heart, thinking and feeling, knowing and loving.
God’s “thinking” and “feeling” are deeply part of His Trinitarian being.
God made the world so He can communicate, and we his creatures receive, His glory; and that it might be received by both the mind and heart.
If we are to live as people made in the image of God to glorify Him fully, we must engage our mind in knowing Him truly and our hearts in loving Him duly.
The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fire of the heart.
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GOD – a TRINITY of PERSONS
This is the best visual I have seen on the TRINITY. It shows clearly that the TRINITY comprises three persons.
I was guilty of not treating the Holy Spirit as a person, the third person of the TRINITY who indwelt my spirit and was prepared to be my Counsellor, Comforter, Teacher and even Healer.
You need to develop a relationship with the HOLY SPIRIT which takes time and effort. The scripture cautions us strongly about not grieving or quenching the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Think about it, if GOD was not a TRINITY there would be no salvation for us sinners. The Father sent the SON, the second person of the TRINITY to save us from our sins. Our sin separates us eternally from GOD but JESUS was prepared to pay the price and die in our place. As long as we repent of our sin and accept JESUS as our LORD and SAVIOUR we can be certain of eternal life now
LIVING ETERNAL NOW 