Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

One God is a universal concept. They are in one agreement, perfect harmony. Those concepts are easily understood.

What defines each one of the three?

Is it fair to the other two to say the Father was the creator? When they existed in the eternal realm before anything was created, they were in agreement together. In the Gospel of John the Word was God and became flesh and nothing was created without Him, so Jesus is singled out as a vital part of creation.

In His earthly ministry Jesus declared He was only doing the will of the Father and without the Father’s will nothing was done. Where was the Holy Spirit in that? Since they were One in agreement always, the Father wills, the Son obeys but what was the Holy Spirit’s part in all that?

In the midst of will and obedience there is an unseen force that executed the will of the Father by the obedience of the Son. None of that was done without the Holy Spirit’s co-operation.

The Holy Spirit is the unseen force just as Jesus describes the 3rd part of the Trinity to Nicodemus, the wind, the breath of God.

For our part in all this we like to think we have some role to play but what is that role if the Father’s will is paramount, the Son’s obedience is essential and the Holy Spirit is the executor of His will.

Are we the stage upon which this play is enacted?

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” W. Shakespere

The idea is not a novel concept. God’s will writes the script to follow, Act 1 Scene 1 and the curtain opens.

John 5:19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

When I was a child my father taught me to hunt and fish, he was my coach in baseball and we built his first home together. We did every significant thing together.

My father never said he took pleasure doing things together. It was just understood. I loved doing it with him and that was enough for me.

Then I went off to the Army and Vietnam. We were separated but he was a WWll veteran, and he and I were the only ones in my family that shared that experience. When I got back home I turned to him and said, “Now we both have something not to talk about.” He nodded, he understood.

The years that followed filled with self-medicating my PTSD. I did not come home because I did not want to disappoint my father.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

If we love the Father we should want to please Him. My lesson in all this is that if you want to please the Father, do things together, whatever He wants to do.