“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!”
—Romans 11:33 (ESV)

The Trinity is a doctrine that is simultaneously relatable and yet beyond our comprehension. It is beautiful and yet mysterious. It reveals a God that is infinitely worthy of our worship. A God who exists in loving relationship and creates us out of the overflow of his love. A God that gives us family, marriage, the church (the body of Christ), angels, and so many other beautiful types and shadows to point us to his glory. A god who is like us in some respects and yet utterly foreign and different in others. A God who condescended into his creation and yet transcends it completely.

When I was Mormon, I imagined a God made in my image and likeness—a perfect version of myself. That view of God left me with diminished wonder. I elevated other things, like my family, to heigthened status because I couldn’t yet see how truly great God is. I couldn’t imagine heaven without those earthly things because I couldn’t yet comprehend how being in God’s presence could in and of itself provide the fullness of joy.

But now I know that he is the one the angels never cease to cry out before, “Holy, holy, holy.”
He is the treasure of heaven.
And an eternity with Him will be more than enough.

One of the worship bands at a local Church wrote a song that reflects the wonder and awe I feel as I contemplate God:

“Who can tell the sun to rise?

Who can show the dawn its place?

I could spend a thousand years

And only start to know Your ways

Who can measure what you’re worth

Who can fathom what you’ve done

I could write a thousand songs

And never capture Heaven’s love.”

These words reflect the joy of worshipping a God that is infinitely complex, fascinating and awe inspiring. We could spend a thousand years in his presence and yet always find something new to admire and worship and appreciate and enjoy.

If you’re a Latter-day Saint reading this, I hope you’ll consider that perhaps the biblical doctrine of the Trinity isn’t a contradiction to be explained away, but a mystery to be adored. I have found that the God of Scripture is far greater than I ever imagined: uncreated, eternal, holy, and overflowing in perfect love. The more I behold Him, the more I’m drawn not to defend my own understanding, but to fall on my face in worship.

I hope that something in these glimpses of the Trinity has stirred your imagination and deepened your desire to know our great God more fully. I encourage you to enter more deeply into study, contemplation, and relationship with Him