The Old Covenant between Jehovah and Israel was based upon The Law as given to Moses, the foundation of which we refer to as the Ten Commandments. The Law was given to God’s People as a means by which the nation could be established and remain in right standing with their Creator and Protector. The requirements of the Law were met through the decision to be committed to Godly obedience. It was forged from the metal of God’s own righteousness, and to break one of the Commandments was to break them all. Think of being held suspended over a bottomless pit by a chain of ten links. There is no question that the steel of each link is more than sufficient to withstand the weight of your existence...but break just one of those links, and down you go. The integrity of the other nine links will not save you. We are not, and can not be, saved by the Law—and if this is the case with the Laws of God, it is obviously true of the laws of man.

The New Covenant, on the other hand, results in God’s law being written upon the hearts and minds of the Children of God the Father, through Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Holy Spirit. This requires the decision to be committed to the surrender of my physical, mental, and spiritual existence to God. When we accept forgiveness from the Son, and ask for His Lordship within our lives, we have become a member of His Body and Bride...that is the Church Universal. Think of a rope. Each of us is one of millions of fibers that make up a length of rope. Individually, we aren’t much, but bind us together and we have a comparable tinsel strength greater that steel. Ecclesiastes 4:12 states, A cord of three strands is not quickly broken—and we find evidences of triadic structures throughout all of existence.

The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands (Ps 19:1; NAS). For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they [pagans] are without excuse (Ro 1:20; NAS). As these verses tell us, the Bible steers all who are seeking real Truth toward all of creation in order to discover “fingerprints�?of our triune Creator. I am truly amazed at how prevalent these fingerprints turn out to be...even with a cursory examination of existence.

D. James Kennedy offers a teaching called, �?I>Understanding the Trinity,�?through his Truths That Transform radio tape series that pays especial attention to this issue. Dr. Kennedy observes that the composition of the Universe itself provides an analogy for our Triune God in that it is a trinitarian construct of matter, space and time. In turn, time is composed of the past, present, and future; space is made up of height, breadth, and depth dimensions (x, y, & z axis), and matter is made up of energy, motion, and phenomena. Each of the three aspects for each of the three facets must be fully present simultaneously in order for the Universe, as we experience it, to exist.

In addition to Dr. Kennedy’s observations, for me, First John 1:5 provides the clue for the best analogy of the triune nature of God: This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all (NIV). Light that has no darkness at all is white light. White light is made up of three primary hues, or colors—red, yellow and blue. All three primaries must be present to constitute white light, and, contra positively, the absence of all three results in “black�?darkness, that is, a total absence of visible light. The millions of other colors of light that we see are made from this primary “trinity of colors�?

In pigmentary color theory (paint) the three primary colors are also red, yellow, and blue. You can not mix two colors and get red, for example, and you can not use one or two primary colors to describe the other(s). A total absence of pigment results in white, while all colors present makes black. This is effectively the reverse of the conditions for white light and “blackness.�?I like to think of pigment as colors of the world, versus colors of the spirit (light). The more of the world’s color that we take on, the darker our lives. The less of the world’s color, the lighter we appear until we reflect only the pure white light of the triune primaries of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

While they are, perhaps, not truly analogous examples of triune relationships, there are many other occasions of “three-ness�?to be found in existence. Human language is based upon a structure of a subject, an object, and a predicate. Natural procreation requires a male, a female, and a baby. The three states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas. All projects possess a beginning, a middle, and an end. I offer that triads of major partitions, structures, arguments, compositions, evidences, facets, aspects, states, and so-on, are innately pervasive to the point that we do not consciously perceive the regularity of these groupings of three. As a consequence, we tend to miss the dramatically significant implications of these regularities as testimony of creation at the hands of a Triune God.

Out of these examples of the tripartite nature of the Universe we can draw certain inferences regarding the Creator of creation. From astrophysics to the study of the atom, we see patterns in our existence that reflect elements of common design. For there to be a design there must be a Designer. Although a natural revelation of God does not equate with the knowledge of God’s being that is gained through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the study of the Word, and a regimen of prayer, praise, and corporate worship—there is a plethora of evidence as to THE God being a God of ordered design, who is antithetical to chaos. His eternal power and divine nature are revealed in the workings of the stage upon which we are set. As surely as night follows day, when a person, or a nation, violates the natural laws of existence there is a steady decline in wisdom, rationality, and productive behavior for that person…or for that nation. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace (Ro 8:6; NIV).