How much Mary Magdalene's eyes were opened by her view of the Risen Lord!
He not only declared to her his close relationship with His people as brethren, but He reiterated His relation to God as His Father and by implication Himself as the Son of God.
The Trinity is largely a mystery to us. Why does God describe the relationship between the First and Second Persons as that of Father and Son?
This is especially puzzling because there never was a time when the Father, Son and Holy Ghost did not exist. None created the other, and they are all equally God, yet distinct persons of the Godhead.
There are many different relationships between two persons: king and subject, master and slave, single hearted friends. But perhaps there is simply no better human relationship that explains the relationship between those two Persons than that of Father and Son.
For the Son is subject to and obedient to the Father, without any hint of inferiority. The Son is proud of the Father, and the Father beems at the Son. Each yearns for the best interests of the other. The Father provides everything necessary, and the Son is obedient from love, not fear.
Both are concerned for the family business, with the Son the most loyal of persons to the Father, the two bound together in complete love and affection for each other.
Truly, the Father/Son relationship is the most intimate arrangement imaginable between two equals, one of which is subject to the other.
Jesus always owned Himself subject to His Father's will and perfectly obedient to it. His obedience was always completely voluntary and an act of His own free will, even his obedience unto death for us!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
