On the Third Day of Passion Week, my true love gave to me…
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (II Corinthians 13:14 ESV)
Three Persons Involved
Our salvation was paid for by the willing sacrifice of the Second Person of the Trinity. God Himself, the second person of the Trinity, left heaven, was incarnated, lived, suffered, and died for God’s plan of salvation to be accomplished. When we think about our salvation, that is the person we usually think of.
But God the Father was also involved, necessarily. He accepted the sacrifice on our behalf… it did not just happen. We could claim it all day long, but if God the Father did not say, “THIS is the way of salvation,” we would not be saved.
And the Holy Spirit was also involved, necessarily. The Holy Spirit’s task in this part of our salvation is bringing the atoning work of Christ on the cross into our individual hearts. It is not that we reach out and take the proffered salvation from the shelf where God the Father put it… but rather the Holy Spirit applies the Salvation to us.
We should, along with the crowds at the Triumphal Entry, cheer Jesus Christ. Look what He did for us! But we should also cheer God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit.
It does not take a village to save us… but it does take the Trinity.
I rejoice that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have saved His people.