Yesterday I wrote, "God loves us.  Otherwise, why in the world would he become a man and sacrifice himself..."  I was thinking about the verses in Philippians 2:5-7:

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men..."

Such powerful verses.  God looked on us, loved us, became a man, showed us what He was like, and died for us.   Then he rose again to stand between us and judgment.  Verse 8 from that passage says, "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."  

God found himself in the fashion of a man.  Jesus.

Do I understand all of that?  No.  I don't.  The idea of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit being one God boggles my mind.  As a matter of fact, the word "Trinity" was invented to explain it, but that word isn't found in the Bible.  That word just gives the idea a name.

The closest that the Bible comes to explaining it (for me) was written by John, Jesus' disciple: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."  1John 5:7

John further explained what the "Word" was in John 1:1-2,4  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  In Him was life; and the life was the light of men."

The Word of God.  Jesus.  The way God spoke to us.  Life--for those who choose Him.  Like I said the other day, "What a deal."  And it's free.

 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.