Last week I purchased the book 'The Shack Revisited' by C. Baxter Kruger, unfortunately for me my
wife promptly got her hands on it and has been reading it.
Every now and then with great excitement
she throws me morsels of truth that
amazingly portray the gloriuos work and scope of the Trinity.
My wife read me the passage below and it
blew me away, it is just the most wonderful picture of our amazing God.
Thank you C. Baxter Kruger for your insight
and the expression of the lavishness of God’s overwhelming and overflowing
grace.
From all eternity, God is not alone and
solitary, but lives as Father, Son and Spirit in a rich and glorious and
abounding fellowship of utter oneness. There is no emptiness in this circle, no
depression or fear or insecurity. The trinitarian life is a great dance of
unchained communion and intimacy, fired by passionate, self-giving and
other-centered love, and mutual delight. This life is good. It is right, unique,
full of music and joy, blessedness and peace. Such love, giving rise to such
togetherness and fellowship and oneness, is the womb of the universe and of
humanity within it.
The stunning truth is that this Triune God,
in amazing and lavish love, determined to open the circle and share the
trinitarian life with others. This is the one, eternal and abiding reason for
the creation of the world and of human life. There is no other God, no other
will of God, no second plan, no hidden agenda for human beings. Before the
creation of the world, the Father, Son and Spirit set their love upon us and
planned to bring us to share and know and experience the trinitarian life
itself. Unto this end the cosmos was called into being, and the human race was
fashioned, and Adam and Eve were given a place in the coming of Jesus Christ,
the Father’s Son himself, in and through whom the dream of our adoption would
be accomplished.
Before creation, it was decided that the
Son would cross every chasm between the Triune God and humanity and establish a
real and abiding relationship with us—union. Jesus was predestined to be the
mediator, the one in and through whom the very life of the Triune God would
enter human existence, and human existence would be lifted up to share in the
trinitarian life.
When Adam and Eve rebelled, ushering in
chaos and misery into God’s creation, the Father, Son and Spirit never
abandoned their dream, but wonderfully incorporated darkness and sin into the
tapestry of the coming incarnation. As the Father’s Son became human, and as he
submitted himself to bear our anger, and bizarre blindness, and as he gave
himself to suffer a murderous death at our hands, he established a real and
abiding relationship with fallen humanity at our very worst—and he brought his Father
and the Holy Spirit with him. It was in Jesus himself, and in his death at our
bitter hands, that the trinitarian life of God pitched its tent in our hell on
earth, thereby uniting all that the Father, Son and Spirit share with all that
we are in our brokenness, shame and sin—adoption.
In the life and death of Jesus the Holy
Spirit made his way into human pain and blindness. Inside our broken inner
worlds the Spirit works to reveal Jesus in us so that we can meet Jesus himself
in our own sin and shame, and begin to see what Jesus sees, and know his Father
with him. The Holy Spirit takes of Jesus and discloses it to us, so that we can
know and experience Jesus’ own relationship with his Father, and we can be free
to live in the Father’s embrace with Jesus.
