The Trinity
The Divine Dance
The Dance....
In Christianity God is not a static thing....but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
If from all eternity, without end and without beginning, ultimate reality is a community of persons knowing and loving one another, then ultimate reality is about love relationships.
Why would a triune God create a world?
If he were a unipersonal God, you might say, "Well, he created the world so he can have beings who give him worshipful love, and that would give him joy."
But the triune God already had that -- and he received love within himself in a far purer, more powerful form than we human beings can ever give him.
So why would he create us?
There is only one answer.
He must have created us not to get joy, but to give it.
He must have created us to invite us into the great dance, to say: If you glorify me, if you center your entire life on me, if you find me beautiful for who I am in myself, then you will step into the dance,* which is what you are made for.
You are not made just to believe in me or to be spiritual in some general way, not just to pray and get a bit of inspiration when things are tough.
You are made to center everything in your life on me, to think of everything in terms of your relationship with me.
To serve me unconditionally.
That's where you will find your joy.
That's what the dance is all about.
Are you in the dance or do you just believe God is out there somewhere?
Are you in the dance or do you just pray to God every so often when you're in trouble?
Are you in the dance or are you looking around for someone to orbit around you?
If live is a divine dance, then you need more than anything else to be in it.
That's what you were built for.
You were made to enter into a divine dance with the Trinity.
--King's Cross, by Timothy Keller, chapter 1
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