Every time we communicate, we exhibit the Trinity be it through verbal speech, hand gestures, eye contact, writing, however we communicate to get a point across, even pictures and sounds.
When you communicate, you are the little g “god” of what you say. You are the creator of your words. You are “god the father”. Your words, though, do not begin in your mouth but originate from your mind. If you only think words but do not say them or communicate them in any way, then you remain only, god the father. Please don't think I am equating this with God; only comparing its similarities and do remember this is only "my" way of "seeing" it, just an idea that I think helps explain the concept in a way that we can relate to.
When you say the words, then “god the son” is exhibited. When your words are spoken they are born, they are visible to others through hearing. Your thoughts become flesh, so to speak, for others to see and hold in their lives. When you read a book, study a lesson, thumb through a magazine, or scan through a stack of coupons, you are listening to what someone wants to tell you. We are all bombarded each day with a deluge of nonverbal communication.
When you drive to work or to the store a civil engineer speaks to you. He hangs a sign on a post and tells you what the speed limit is, or to watch out for an oncoming curve or a dip in the road. He hangs lights at a four-way to tell you to go, slow down or stop. He sets signs at intersections so that he can tell you the names of those streets. A retailer rents billboard space along your path telling you what you should buy and where you should buy it. In the checkout line, a photographer takes a picture and puts it on magazine to tell you what someone looks like. A writer creates a catchy headline asking you to look further into the subject. A restaurant owner smokes his BBQ beef outdoors. He uses hickory wood in order to capture your attention, no signs, no verbal shout outs, just the aroma. The list is absolutely endless.
All of these communications originated from someone. Some god the father wanted to tell you something and when they did, god the son was used. God was able to take his creative word and form it into living, breathing flesh known as Jesus. We are able to take our creative word and turn it into signs, magazine pictures, print, marketing ploys, etc. The civil engineer cannot stand on the road and physically inform every motorist of an oncoming traffic hazard, so he sets a sign. That sign is in effect, himself. This sign could remain long after the death of the civil engineer and yet it still speaks.
When I read my Bible, I am listening to people who have been dead for thousands of years. Am I listening to dead people? No, because they were not dead when they wrote it. We will get into this in another blog..
So, we have established that we are god the father of our communication and when we communicate, we are god the son. Two separate parts, same person. Now, how about the Holy Spirit?
Can I first touch on the power of the Holy Spirit? Maybe the best way to understand the power of the holy spirit in communication is to switch roles. Be the driver for a moment, the one going to work or the store. As you approach the sign that shows a curved arrow with a 25 mph sign below it, you have to make some decisions. First, do you believe what the sign says? Second, if you do believe the sign you have to react by slowing down and prepare for the curve ahead. The civil engineer has effectively gotten his message across to you when you saw and acknowledged the sign but he has no power to make you obey and prepare. It is the job of god the holy spirit, working in you, to get you to obey what you have just heard from the civil engineer through his curve sign. Most likely, you will obey the sign because you can see ahead of you the correlating evidence and so the question to obey seems rather obvious. Of course you are going to obey, if you do not you will drive off the road and no telling what will happen after that. But what if the curve is just over a hill and you can not see it until it is to late? Then you have to believe the civil engineer without the aid of your overpowering sense of sight. As soon as you read or understand the sign, god the holy spirit comes into play. He is the power that gets you ready to react to what you have come to understand if you choose to believe. Maybe this is one nasty curve up ahead and the civil engineer is so concerned about your well being that he has placed two other signs previously that read, “curve ahead and prepare to slow down.” He understands that because of this particular danger it would be a good idea to let god the holy spirit begin working on you.
Every form of communication is designed to get you to react. In order for you to react the way that that communicator wants you to react, he has to convince you to believe. This is the non-tangible god the holy spirit. The communicator will use a plethora of ways to try to achieve this goal; colors, sounds, fonts, shapes and sizes, tone, gestures and the list goes on. Even the raising of the eyebrow or the pursing of the lips can tell you all you need to know. You know the look. You have seen it before on your mom or dad’s face, and when you did, you knew right away that if you did not change what you were doing you would be in big trouble.
Every form of communication has its variables of spirit. When we converse with each other every day, the spirit of our conversation is usually basic and simple. If we want to get a point across more dramatically we might choose more spirited words or raise the tone of our voices. This is the holy spirit of our communication. A painted purple spot on a tree says in a very calm and unobtrusive way that this is my property and I would like you to stay off please. A sign reading, “No Trespassing,” has a little more spirit in it. Two or three signs placed not too far apart gives the message even more spirit. What if they are painted red? What if they have flashing lights around them? They all say the exact same thing but each one has variation of spirit behind it. This is power of god the holy spirit working through god the son having been spoken by use of a sign from god the father.
So we observe the power of god the holy spirit directly tied to god the father and god the son in communication yet we see that he is unique in his job.
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