In conversation with a few people just before our Wednesday evening Bible study, I was told of astronomers recently discovering another universe. My immediate question was as to whether an end, a boundary of some sort separating ours from it had been determined; and the fellow telling the story admitted to speaking in error. This new glimpse into the depths of this abysmal expanse, in which we find ourselves to be no more than an infinitesimal speck positioned in the middle of nowhere, actually reveals something like 10,000 galaxies in a span that, viewed from Earth, fits inside an average drinking straw. The reality of such image, however, is lost to us for the most part, the world around us more than we can grasp, our brain with enough trouble just dealing with those events that come to us on a daily basis. Overload. Is it possible, though, that many of us within Christianity has likewise limited our perspective, peripheral vision eliminated, for the most part and our focus directed toward a chapter and verse image of Jesus we have created, ourselves, out of the Book? Sometimes it seems to me that, while we grant the Holy Ghost membership in what we refer to as Trinity, we abandon Him, nonetheless, to a position somewhere in the shadows, either claiming His authority as ours to control or else reducing Him to some intangible, unknowable “spook”, a force directing traffic in the background. God the Father gets pretty much the same reverence, omnipotence, omniscience, and an Old Testament report that suggests His judgment nothing we want to encounter tending to find us a bit like the Israelites when asked to approach the ominous mountain that was on fire. Christ, however, assures us that He and the Creator are “one”, that to come into His presence is to also, in that moment, know Yahweh as He is; and that leaves me, personally, not with a “singularity”, but a Spiritual union wherein three are made one, each, even so, distinct in their own identity.
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