Last night during the Dinner with the Staff at Whitley Church, Pastor Ferrell made a statement that made a light bulb glow over my head. I'm paraphrasing a bit but he stated that we are Trinitarian in nature and belief.
According to www.freedictionary.com here is the definition:
adj.
1.
a. Of or relating to the Christian Trinity.
b. Believing or professing belief in the Christian Trinity or the doctrine of the Trinity.
2. trinitarian Having three members, parts, or facets.
n.
1. One who believes in the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.
The Trinity has always been something I believed in. I never doubted The Trinity, but I can't really say I understood it completely either. It was one of those things that just always was, but I couldn't necessarily wrap my mind around the fundamentals of it, until last night. We are Trinitarian by having 3 functional members: mind, body, and spirit. So my little brain began to break it down like this (I was still listening to what you were saying Pastor, but my writer/thinker portion of my brain kicked into gear a bit. lol) God is the mind, Jesus is the body, and well duh...The Spirit is the spirit.
Without the mind (brain), all other systems aren't a go. The only way to live without a functioning brain is artificial life support. As a child born to the victim of a brain aneurysm, this concept was quite simple for me to put into place. My mother is very protective of her brain, because she has had to learn to live and thrive once again after it suffered severe trauma. However, the doctors originally anticipated her best case scenario for recovery/survival was that she was to be a vegetable (and empty vessel essentially). She would be there, but without her brain, she wouldn't be functional. We cannot be spiritually functional without God (The Brain), because the brain leads the rest of the body.
Jesus came to Earth as God in the flesh (body). He ate, drank, slept, and lived just like we do. This portion is pretty self explanatory in comparison, but it helped me to paint the big picture. This is the part of God that is human like us. This was God as a visual example.
Our spirit is part of our life source (like the brain) and our heart is connected to our spirit. Once the heart stops pumping the spirit moves on. The exit of our spirit means we are truly dead. The Holy Spirit is what keeps our heart pumping for Jesus. He guides us towards things that are not part of our nature or better yet totally against our nature. Matt 26:41 tells us that The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So we very much so need The Spirit to keep our natural flesh from taking over and running away with things. The Spirit guides us in our prayer and our walk. He is the socket into which we plug ourselves in to connect to Jesus and God.
Without our brain we are empty vessels living an artificial life. Without the body the brain and spirit serve no purpose. And without the spirit, there is no life! The Trinity is an all or nothing deal, just like our own body, mind, and spirit. You can't really have one without the others.
I love when I get these little nuggets from God. It shows me that he's far more tangible than it seems at times. I now have an understanding that I anticipated I wouldn't have before I went to heaven. I've always said that one of the first things I was going to ask God was to explain this whole Trinity thing to me. But, now I guess I have to come up with a new question. :D
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