Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Depending on your denomination or leadership, your worship gatherings may tend to lack equality in remembering, acknowledging and seeking God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Some churches focus most on Father.  Others focus mostly on Jesus the Son and Saviour, especially those that are teaching a me-centered gospel that only really sees Jesus' redemptive work as paying my debt so I don't go to hell.  Some churches have a strong emphasis on the Spirit though it is not always a very complete interacting with and understanding of the Spirit. For example they might just speak in tongues and be very emotional.

The reason I bring this up is that like I mentioned in my last post, our worship should strive to paint as full a picture of God's story as we humans can.  But along with that, we should worship God in His fullness as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, yet still as One (Deut. 6:4).  Remember, our worship should make it very clear who God is and how we relate to Him, otherwise its incomplete.  And if we're consistently missing important pieces in prayer, song, sermon, etc., I would think its pretty easy for people's faith to be incompletely built up and lived out.   And particularly where the Holy spirit is concerned, if the Spirit isn't leading our worship, which I fear happens very often in different congregations, it is entirely lacking and just a man made program rather than an authentic interaction with God.  It just reminds me of how dependent we are upon God.  He has to be the One that enables us and makes a way for us to worship Him, every time.  Which is why we need to call upon the Holy Spirit, every time we worship.

Reflecting upon all this I find that the Holy Spirit is not remembered or acknowledged a lot in my congregation's worship (funny how its the Holy Spirit Himself that revealed this).  Pay attention to your interactions with God, whether in private prayer, or in full corporate worship (or anywhere in between).  Are you and your local body of believers remembering and interacting with God in His fullness as the Trinity?  Be challenged to try to fill in the gaps and also to explore how Father, Son and Spirit have worked together for eternity and throughout the story of humanity.

Here's a prayer I found from St. Augustine of Hippo for our seeking the Holy Spirit, could be a great prayer for the beginning of each day.

"Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
Amen."