EXPLAINING THE TRI-UNITY OF THE GODHEAD is much like trying to explain one’s child. If you had asked me to explain my first child, Trinity, when she was a little tyke of two or three I would have had little problem. But, ask me to explain her as a grade school child, a teenager, a young adult, and the process of explanation becomes well nigh impossible. Now, lest you think I am picking on my eldest child, let me set the record straight, explaining the rest of our brood became increasingly more difficult for me, and it seemed to start at an earlier age. I read the books that told me each successive child would be different from their older siblings, they just never told me how different.
The learning curve continues for me, and I dare say, shall continue for quite some time to come. I am not bemoaning the fact of their differences and their “un-explain-ability,” and truth be known I appreciate each child’s uniqueness and gifts. I suppose what I am trying to communicate is that the longer I watch them, the more I stand back in awe and wonder at the people they are becoming. My inability to explain in no way diminishes the beautiful gifts they are from my heavenly Father.
Back to theology. Explaining Trinitarian theology is thus impossible. It is, as we say, a mystery. But, as a mystery, like our children, it is a wonderful thing to behold. The longer I walk with God, the more I seek to know Him, more mystery is revealed. The deeper I peer into this mystery the more wonderful and awe-inspiring it becomes. The more my heart is moved to worship. And is this not what God truly desires?