Perspective

Ever have those moments when you look at something that seems "old-hat" or "familiar," but for whatever reason this time you see it from a fresh perspective that illuminates new understanding and revelation? I had one of those moments last night in my life group. We've been working through the Truth Project, put out by Focus On The Family, in our Life Group on Monday nights and last night the speaker was describing social order and how it mimics the trinity.

For example, the Father and Son are one, the Son is submissive to the Father and from the Father and Son comes the Holy Spirit. You look at the family, the man and women are to join and become one flesh, the women is to submit to her husband while the husband is to love his wife. From them come children. In the social order of the church we see that Christ is the head and the church body is the bride. Christ loves the church as a man should love his wife and as the Father loves His Son. We are told that the leaders (church) are to watch over the "flock."

He went on to talk about the idea that life is a string of relationships and that every form of relationship is found in the trinity. Intimacy, community, unity, fellowship, love...it's all there in one person. There's a lot about God that I don't comprehend and this is only scratching the surface of God's grand design, but it is reassuring to know that I serve a God of order and purpose and somehow I'm an intricate part of that.