Belief in the Reality of God
The advantage of believing in the reality of the Trinity is not that we get an A from God for giving “the right answer.” Remember, to believe something is to act as if it is so. To believe that two plus two equals four is to behave accordingly when trying to find out how many dollars or apples are in the house. The advantage of believing it is not that we can pass tests in arithmetic; it is that we can deal much more successfully with reality. Just try dealing with it as if two plus two equaled six.
Hence, the advantage of believing in the Trinity is that we then live as if the Trinity is real: as if the cosmos environing us actually is, beyond all else, a self-sufficing community of unspeakably magnificent personal beings of boundless love, knowledge, and power.
And, thus believing, our lives naturally integrate themselves, through our actions, into the reality of such a universe, just as with two plus two equals four.
In faith we rest ourselves upon the reality of the Trinity in action—and it graciously meets us. For it is there. And our lives are then enmeshed in the true world of God.
—Dallas Willard
The Divine Conspiracy
Belief profoundly changes us. It empowers us to live beyond ourselves. Belief opens our eyes to the bigger picture, and our hearts to the God who created and sustains it. It gives context to all things, temporal and eternal, while calling our lives forward, beyond the temporal into the eternal. Belief changes us into ministers of the Gospel unto others. The apostle Paul wrote, “It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’ Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God” (2 Cor. 4:13-15). Dig deep into belief; allow God to change you for it. —DH
—David Hoskins, Founder & Care Guide, Sanctuary Clinics