While Jesus was living on this planet, walking around with people like you and me, He spent time with God. I find that fascinating. He was WITH God, He WAS God and He COMMUNED with God. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are the most fascinating and ideal example of ultimate community.
When I think about them BEING together, I seriously can't even wrap my mind about what that would look like. They already know everything about the others, but they talk and relate and make requests of the others and go back and forth about things.
It's interesting because some emotions we experience when we relate to others, they never experience. They are probably never surprised, for instance, because they already know the other two so well that they expect everything already. We, on the other hand, are surprised, intentionally and unintentionally, by others all the time. That kind of makes me laugh because when the three, the Trinity, are together, One of them could make a joke... but both of the others would already know what was coming. I imagine they would all laugh, though, because they love each other so deeply and I would suspect that they have the utmost regard and respect for the others.
[I hope that this isn't seeming like I am saying things without knowledge about them. I really am just speculating about something I know nothing about.]
Something that made me wonder about the Three of them was John 17. Have you read it? Even if you have, go read it again. In it, Jesus is praying. Have you thought about that? Jesus (God) prayed to God. I had a hard time trying to think about that until I realized that there isn't anything really different about it from when we pray. While God knew everything that Jesus was going to say, He knows everything that we are going to say. God allowing us to speak to Him is inviting us to experience a taste of the ultimate community that He experiences and offers to us... one that we, one day, will know. Like I said... I find that fascinating. I could go on talking about that and chase all sorts of rabbits in my mind about it, but I won't. I will, however, leave you with John 17:20-23, the beginning of the part where Jesus prays for everyone who is going to believe in Him. Yes, think about that... He prayed for me... and you, too, if you believe:
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you loved me."
Isn't it interesting how much Jesus talked about us being in Him and God being in Jesus and different connections like that? It continues throughout the passage... but what I love is knowing that the purposes for that ultimate community are: "so that the world may believe that [God] has sent [Jesus]' and "to let the world know that [God]... loved them even as [God] loved [Jesus]."
Yes, definitely fascinating.
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