The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

Monday, May 30, 2011

The Sacred Romance of the Trinity

i believe i am getting closer to the why of God allowing suffering in this world of a free and fallen humanity. I believe the answer is in the kenosis (self emptying) of the Trinity

1. We long for intimacy because we are made in the image of perfect intimacy. Before all creation there existed a fellowship, a heroic intimacy and an adventure called the Trinity. The bigger Story begins with the Hero in love. From this fellowship sprang all of our longings for friendship, a family, a home, a fellowship and intimacy. And this Fellowship wants us to be a part of the Story; that through their abundant generosity to share in the meaning, joy and flow of their Life and Love. We can count on love to ultimately be victorious. (Epic)
2. In the spiritual marriage of baptism, we share God’s life. The God we get married to is a Trinity of persons, each of whom empties himself, and dies to self. Father loves Son, not self. Son loves Father not self. Spirit is that love between them. Spirit reveals the Son, not self. Son reveals the Father not self. Father begets son, not self. Father and Son process Spirit not themselves. Each ones dies to self eternally. Suffering is akin to this death of self “from the highest to the lowest, self exists to be abdicated and by that abdication, become more truly self & to be thereupon yet the more abdicated and so on forever.” CS Lewis.

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