Living in Christ's Presence by Willard Dallas

Author:Willard, Dallas [Willard, Dallas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2013-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

Life Within the Trinity

What do you think life is like within the Trinity? Do you think there are a lot of arguments over who’s the most omniscient? Who’s the most omnipotent? Who’s the oldest? The idea in the name is that it contains the character, the identity, the dynamics and the reality of the Trinity. We are talking about submersion in the name of the Father and the Son and the Spirit.

Consider the Holy Spirit in the Trinity for a moment. Dale Bruner wrote a wonderful book called The Holy Spirit: Shy Member of the Trinity . Of the Spirit, he said,

One of the most surprising discoveries in my own study of the doctrine and experience of the Spirit in the New Testament is what I can only call the shyness of the Holy Spirit. What I mean here is not the shyness of timidity. Paul in 1 Timothy 1:7 calls him the spirit of power. It’s not the spirit of timidity, but the spirit of difference. A spirit of concentrated attention on another. It is not the shyness which with we often experience of self-centeredness, but the shyness of other-centeredness. In a word, the shyness of love. The shyness of love.

There are a number of texts in the New Testament that speak about the dimension of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you” (John 14:26). In other words, the Spirit will remind people about Jesus.

Jesus also said, “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you” (John 16:13-14). In other words, the Holy Spirit does not clamor to have attention focused on himself. His constant ministry is to get people to focus on Jesus.

Bruner said the ministry of the Holy Spirit can be kind of pictured like the illustration below. The Holy Spirit is saying, “Listen to him, look at him, pay attention to him, love him, follow him.”

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