Day 4 - Week 2 - John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

One of the truths conveyed in this verse is that of the Trinity, since it definitely indicates two beings were present "in the beginning" when it says that the "Word was with God."  To be with someone, there has to be another someone, doesn't there?

Does the concept of the Trinity bother you?  I know that it is troublesome to some people.  How can we say we serve one God, but that God is three persons...for some, that just doesn't seem to jive.

Here's the way of looking at it that made it clearest for me...there are many other analogies...but the way I look at it is, I am me.  I am Janice.  But I am Janice in the body (the Janice you see), I am Janice in my mind (the Janice that thinks/reasons/expresses herself) and I am Janice in my soul (my spiritual/eternal being that will live on forever).  Each of these are separate parts of me, and individually identified, but they are all me.  I think in much the same way that is how God is. I even think that may be why God said, "Let us make man in our image."  Just as God is triune, we are images of that trinity.  And quite possibly, even in the same identities...

Jesus Christ - the bodily image of God, the part of God tied to humanity and Savior of humanity;
God the Father - the mind, the driving force behind it all, the planner;
Holy Spirit - the spiritual presence of God. 

Consider Matthew 22:37, "Jesus said unto him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

Heart - in Greek, "Kardia" - that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the blood, and hence was regarded as the seat of physical life
Soul - in Greek, "Psuche" - the breath of life
Mind - in Greek, "Dianoia" - faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring; imagination

I think God is asking us to fully relate to Him with the fullness of us in a mirror relationship. 

This is, as Beth Moore would say, one of those things you might "pencil in" somewhere, and possibly with an eraser at your fingertips!  It is certainly nothing that I'm saying is unwavering truth.  But something to ponder....and maybe, hopefully, help us to see our God a little clearer. 

Loving His Amazing Word!

Will be back in touch Sunday evening/Monday morning for two more days of this power-packed verse!