The Godhead: Come to Life

A couple of weeks ago after lifting up my husband in prayer I began to converse more deeply with the Almighty. I pondered His heart and the relation between He, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. How could they be separate, yet One? I knew and believed that this was true but couldn’t really figure out how I should come to them in worship… as a whole, separately, or both. I had asked God many times but never got a clear answer. Finally, my questions and inquiries about this were answered and all of my pondering put to rest.

God showed me that He, Himself, is the heart and mind; The Holy Spirit is His Spirit; and Jesus is His flesh. Altogether they equal one whole being but separately they are each a component of God. This answered so many things and brought the Gospel to life in a completely new way for me. The word says that we are created in His image, and this is how that is so. We as people have all of the components that God has because He created us to bear His image.

I also began to see that when we sin it doesn’t just hurt God because we are His creation and His children and He loves us (This is the way that I have been taught), but that He really can relate to us because He knows how much it hurts us. He suffered taking on all of the sin of everyone who will claim Jesus as Lord; everyone who is, was, and will be by dying a horrible painful death that caused His flesh (Jesus) death and excruciating pain, broke His Heart (The Father), and grieved His Spirit (The Holy Spirit). He remembers the pain. He remembers the death. He remembers the suffering. He has mercy. He took on all of that because He loves us and He wanted to understand us that much more. He was willing to go through the death and pain of sin so that He could more closely relate to us. He didn’t have to bring justice into the equation of forgiveness. He is God. He could have decided that He didn’t have to do anything but that forgiveness would be available. But He didn’t. He chose to endure all of our suffering so that He could be that much closer to our hearts. He chose to take the punishment for our sin on Himself to spare us punishment. He is so loving. So perfect. So pure. So kind. He is beyond. He is the Savior King.

I cannot remove the overwhelming joy of the things that God revealed to me, and though for some it might be a simple truth, for me it was a mind-blowing, spirit-stirring, life-changing, breakthrough in worship kind of truth. One that I have never known before.

Mind Pollution

Would I rather hide the pollution in my mind from Jesus or would I rather rid my mind of said pollution? This is a serious question I asked myself last night. I began to engage in an unholy thought, then thought to God, Oh God please do not have heard that. This sat unwell within my soul; stirring up the serious posing of the question, "Would I rather hide the pollution in my mind from Jesus or would I rather rid my mind of said pollution?"

I began to think of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. They had sinned and immediately were ashamed and went to hide from God... even though God knew where they were, what they had done, and only EVERYTHING! We spend so much time trying to hide our sin and imperfection from God when we should be laying it at his feet. It is our human instinct to hide our mistakes. If we are ashamed or embarrassed we try to cover it up or forget that it happened. Not only do I do it but I see it with my 2 year old daughter all the time. If she is doing something she is embarrassed about or knows that she shouldn't be she immediately tells me, "No Mom, one second... go over there, Mom." She is hiding it!

I came to the understanding that I should not be telling God to hold on and go away so I can finish up my unholiness and then come back as if nothing happened. I should catch myself in the midst of it and take it captive in the name of Jesus. I should repent and focus on changing that aspect of my life. Just because it is human nature to hide our sin from God, others, or even ourselves does not mean we have to accept that! We are made new by the blood Jesus. Our hearts are pure and our flesh is working against us to tatter them! We need to rebuke our flesh and stand strong in the power of the Holy Spirit that dwells within each of us that has accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. He gives us the power to overcome. We need to embrace it!

I can do everything through him who gives me strength. -Philipians 4:13