Tri-une Relationship with the Trinity

UV 3747/10000 Tri-une Relationship with the Trinity But you , Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, My friend. Isaiah 41 v 8 God revealed Himself to Isaiah, the prophet as the first and the last, the Alpha and the Omega, the ever present One, the One who existed before history began, the unchanging God. He also revealed that all who believe in Yahweh ( Israel and her commonwealth of nations) are His servant(s). We are like Jacob in his cunning and human vulnerabilities like a worm but the Lord turns us into a powerful threshing instrument of the nations. We are chosen by grace to be His messengers to communicate His love and law to all people. What we speak and share causes a churning in the minds even as worms churn the soil and prepare it for sowing of plants. The Lord also revealed that He longs for a personal relationship like He had with Abraham with each of us. We are declared as Friends of God even as Abraham was. Unlike Jacob, we do not have to wangle the favour of our Heavenly Father by deceit but we are born again in His favour. He has chosen us and we have not chosen Him. It is His grace that enables us to believe Him, follow Him, obey Him. He becomes our shield of faith to quench or put out every burning arrow fired at us by the enemy. He is the sword that executes excellence in our lives. The promises He spoke to Abraham we inherit by faith. By faith, we too are offspring of faith of Abraham though we are Gentiles. As long periods of silence or no contact increase the distance between friends, if we do not spend enough time in the presence of God, talking to Him, listening to Him, our distance increases and conversely, we become intimate with Him and He with us, when we spend long periods of communion, worship, discussion, conversation with Him. He will share with us secrets that are not normally shared with servants. Our intimacy will determine whether we are His servants living in fear of Him, friends living in love of Him or children living in obedience to Him. The uni-verse also says that we can be all three at the same time. He is the One who makes us complete and we do not have to compete with another as siblings like Jacob and Esau did. He has enough time, attention, energy, resources to devote to each of us. He knows us as a Master, as a Friend, as a Parent.