Three is a Complete Number

In Judaism, the number three represents spiritual completion. Thus, the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I want to suggest three other "groups of three" that involve spiritual wholeness.

God loves me, so I can love myself enabling me to love you. Agape love, which begins with God, is unconditional. As we experience God's love, we are able to love ourselves for who we are in Christ. Through the indwelling presence of God, we are then empowered to love others as we love ourselves.

God forgives me, so I can forgive myself enabling me to forgive you. It is an awareness of the cost and how much I have been forgiven by God, that I am able to forgive others. I exchange what others owe me for what I owe God. (Matthew 6)

God is faithful, so I can have faith enabling me to faith you. "...the just shall live by faith." (Romans 1:17) For years I added the phrase, "faith in God alone." Then I realized that was not what the passage said. Our faith must be extended form the beginning point of "faith in God" to faith, belief and trust, in our fellow man. Our faith is all about relationships. faith in God allows us to be open to healthy relationships. John states the purpose of telling the Gospel story of Jesus is that we might have fellowship with one another. That fellowship is with the Father through our relationship with Jesus. (I John 1:1-5)

I challenge you to accept God's love, forgiveness, and faith and to let it flow through you to all other relationships.

What do you think? Do you have questions? I am here to continue the conversation.