sometimes, early mornings are ripe with joyous complexity

Nothing like waking up in the morning to God calling you to be with Him in the quiet.

“The reason why many people give the wrong answers to questions about the Cross, and even ask the wrong questions, is that they have carefully considered neither the seriousness of sin nor majesty of God.” -John Stott

What is interesting is that both the seriousness of sin and God's majesty are linked by the nature of both God and men; God, being sinless, and men, being 'full of it', brings the cross of Christ into its rightfully context and purpose.

Thanks to God that the cross was not the end, nor the beginning. The cross is nothing without the resurrection nor the history of Israel. The old covenant, the cross, and the resurrection are all necessary parts. The mystery that God purposed his own Son to die to bring his children to life is incomprehensible.

"The gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 1:1-4

Similarly, the incomprehensible nature of God, the Trinity, is equally mysterious. Three in one. The Father, the Son, the Spirit. Without one, we cannot have salvation. The Father sends the Son, who promises the Spirit. The Son, obedient to the Father, gives up himself. God glorifies the Son, giving him authority to judge all men. The Son intercedes for us. The Son sends the promised Spirit, to bring life to us. When we die, God, through his Son, raises us to eternal life.

I admit the Trinity simultaneously, the most joyous and most confusing mystery of God. God made it just beyond our grasp so, like a curious child, we might reach for it.




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