Witness for Christ Blog

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Could we have at least one lady out of the three? God is three in one. That's the mystery of the Trinity. We go astray every time we try in our carnal mind to explain things out. Peace comes when you admit that your mind cannot for now wrap itself around some spiritually discerned matters. Look at H2O which can take 3 forms: ice, water and steam. The same matter in 3 different manifestations.

Nobody has any problem seeing The Almighty as our Father. We can all relate to a Creator, a Provider, a Healer. Things become more nuanced with the Son. We can relate to a Redeemer, a High Priest, a King of Kings. But women can also sometimes see themselves as the Bride of Christ and fantasy having an embrace with Him.

Things become more dicey with the Holy Spirit. We can understand a Counsellor, a Comforter, a Guide. But it is tricky to relate to someone who moves like the wind, who can be quenched and grieved and who shies attention and passes everything back to Jesus instead - who in turns refers back everything to the Father... and so we have gone full circle - hence the Trinity.

People relate to God out of their human experience. Those of us who have been hurt or ignored by our earthly father have a hard time putting their trust in God until we have the courage to forgive our parent and take steps to repair what is left of the relationship.

Jesus calls us friends rather than servants. We are supposed to be seated in heavenly places with Him. We can relate to Him as our sibling who came to our level, performed what no-one else could do to save us from our predicament and returned to the glory of God to intercede for us.

But there is one critical figure that is missing in the equation. All of us once were totally dependent on mommy who fed us, clothed us, wiped our nose and our rear, saved us from the big bad wolf, tucked us into bed and sang lullabies to send us to sleep... Could that be the Holy Spirit? Maybe not. We are to mature in Christ and leave the childish things behind...

God is Spirit and spirits (angels) have no gender. We will have quite a (pleasant) surprise when we inhabit our resurrected bodies. God is above the sexual divide (He created sex). Even Jesus said some bizarre things like comparing Himself to a hen gathering her chicks under her wings... Women are often more in tuned with spiritual things because they operate in the realm of intuition while men operate in the realm of logic. Women make great intercessors who labour in prayer for a cause dear to their heart. Let us thank God for the way He made us and let us not cause strife by trying to swap places.

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