Trinity Sunday: Celebrity God Swap

Trinity Sunday, June 15, 2014

1. Every now and again as I'm channel-surfing I come across the program, Celebrity Wife Swap.  Although I've never actually watched the show I get the concept.  In the program, two families, usually from different social classes and lifestyles, swap wives/mothers – and sometimes husbands – for two weeks.  They live, quite out of context, within the familial relationship of a strange, that is, unknown family, as though they were always a part of it.  

   
   

   That got me to thinking, imagine if we could insert ourselves in the life of the Holy Trinity to experience the perfect love, fellowship, union and communion between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  That would indeed, be, to quote Thomas Aquinas, a foretaste of the glory to come.  How would we experience, for example, the human love between husband and wife, of parent and child, or the love of Christian community (church) after having sat in on that experience for a while?

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   Truth be told, we don't have to wait for some future date or experience.  The reality of the Trinity is not some just "out there" concept.  The idea of the Trinity is merely a cold, antiseptic theorem unless we understand the truth of what the Trinity means, personally, that is to say, for every Christian person:  that we are taken into the very life and relationship of the Three, and that adoption into the Godhead affects and instructs our everyday dealings in the world.

   
   

   In Celebrity Wife Swap, the participant are taken out of there own contexts and put into a strange one.  For Christians, participation in the divine life of the Trinity (and sharing that divine life with others) is our proper and natural context.  In Celebrity Wife Swap the participants are taken out of their ethnic or socioeconomic location.  In the Christian life, participation in the divine life of the Trinity is our most proper location;  anything else is of necessity, alien.

   
   

   “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (that’s the Son) and the love of God (the Father) and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (the third Person) be with you"  "for by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature."  2 Peter 1:4

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

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