None of us can fathom the mystery of God. But that does not mean that our faith is a blind “leap into the dark”. Faith, by definition, is always based on what God speaks to us personally, just as He did to Abraham, the father of faith. And our Father has graciously spoken to us in many ways.
One of His messages comes through clearly in Romans 1:19, 20:
…what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Here the Apostle Paul reinforces the justice of God in judging sin. He tells us that we are all accountable to God because He has revealed Himself to mankind in two ways. The first way is through Creation – we can see His eternal power in what we see around us. Everywhere we look, we see order and design in the universe. From the unfathomable heavens to the tiniest subatomic particle, it all functions together. Design demands a Designer. Would an explosion in a print shop produce a dictionary? We can understand God’s power by looking at what He has created. The Psalmist sings about this truth:
Psalm 19:1-4 (NIV) The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
Everyone who has ever lived can see Who God is through His Creation.
But what about Paul’s second point, His Godhead? Here we run into the magnificence of the Trinity, unique to our Christian faith. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit – one God, three Persons. The Trinity gives us reasons for our human behavior. We all experience love. We all long to communicate with each other. We feel our uniqueness, our personality, our value. We all, at some level, have a sense of right and wrong. Where does all this come from? It is based in the Trinity, before Space/Time was created by God’s Love. The Father loves the Son. The Holy Spirit is respectful of the Father. The Son does not lie to the Holy Spirit. They are good to each other, and we see these moral motions in our human behavior, however imperfectly. Why do we think this way? Because the Triune, loving God created everything, and He reveals Himself to us.
We can rejoice in the rationality of our faith. Christianity makes sense; it comports with what we see and experience. Not all questions are answered until we see Him as He is, but now, in this life, we can be confident in His “Eternal Power and Godhead”. We can bow before Him and say, “You are my God!” Bring your brain to church – our Faith makes sense.