Trinity

Jesus is a parent.  Jesus is a lover.  Jesus is a friend.

These three relationships are most important to us.  We need our parents, we need our lover, we need our friends.

Early in life parental relationships are primary.  Parents help us develop a healthy self-esteem.  They are our protectors and providers. 

As time goes on we develop same-sex relationships and these friendships help us develop a sense of identity to the gender of our birth. 

Then we develop an attraction to the opposite gender.  This is powerful and exciting to explore.  We realize we have boundaries in relating to the opposite gender.

A healthy relationship to our parents, to our lover, to our friends is vital in helping us develop our identity, our boundaries, and our self-worth.

We realize that God engenders all three relationships. It’s vital that we explore God as parent, as lover, and as friend.

Jesus’ relationship to Father God is a powerful symbol to what a parent and child relationship can be; affirming, loving, and trusting.

God, as friend can be studied throughout pages of the Bible.  A good example is His relationship to Abraham, whom He called “Friend.”  Or David, who He said was a “man after my own heart.”

I was 18, when I first stumbled across the book of “Song of Soloman” in the Bible.  I couldn’t believe that God could be a passionate lover as depicted in the Song.  It broke my stereo-type of God as being a purely highly moral individual , which He is, but He is also passionate, pursuing, and fiercely devoted to me.

Just as God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; He is also parent, lover, and friend.

Reading the pages of the Bible is an exciting, healing, and grand-adventure filled with God’s attributes, and His loving relationships to men and women just like you and me.