A valuable pot

My value to God is not based on what I am, nor what I have to offer, but is instead based upon whose I am. I am not Gods because I gave myself to Him, I am Gods because He created me, and because he bought me in blood. God set the price, paid the price, and He never consulted me. Therefore, I have nothing to add to the transaction. God is the maker, seller, buyer, and keeper. The potters vessel can never make itself, sell itself, nor buy itself. It's only does what it's creator intended it to do and that is to serve its keeper in whatever capacity the keeper sees fit.

Who is God and what is the Trinity?

C. S. Lewis puts it like this: When you beget, you beget something of the same kind as yourself. A man begets human babies, a beaver begets little beavers, and a bird begets eggs which turn into little birds. But when you make (or create), you make something of a different kind from yourself. A bird makes a nest, a beaver builds a dam, and man makes a wireless set (or a computer)
CS Lewis is a Christian writer that I sometimes quote because he has good theology. good theology is very important. What you should believe should be in line with church history and lines up with the word of God. whenever someone says "I have had a new revelation from god", you should run the other way. Every teaching of the word of God, must line up with the word of God (the bible). If a man were to say that an angel of light brought me another gospel and he is supposed to start a new religion, you should check it against the bible. Paul says in Romans that If anyone should bring you another gospel, other than what we have preached to you, don't believe them. That is where we are to start. Now to just go to the bible and start in Genesis and read through to the end of Revelations, you won't really get what you are looking for. That is why we rely on sound teachers and sound doctrine. There are many people out there who are deceiving people by saying things that "tickle their ears". In other words, they are telling them what they want to hear and not the truth. with that in mind let me tell you why Jesus not only is God, but had to be God. Let's first begin with the Trinity and that is the hardest to wrap ourselves around. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate persons in being. That means they have three separate bodies per say. Although they are three separate beings, they are one God. All that the Father is, the Son is, and all that the Son is, The Spirit is. So, the mind of God the father is the same as Jesus. Jesus always does the will of the Father and knows the will of The father. The same is true for the Spirit. Jesus is the express image of the Father. That is to say that Jesus is like a reflection of the Father in a mirror that not only reflects the image, but also the thoughts and desires of the Father. The same is true of the Spirit. There is however, a hierarchy of the God head. You can think if it as a family. A husband is the head of the household, the wife is equal to the husband, but is to submit to the will of the husband, and the children do the will of the father and mother. The relationship is the same in the trinity. God the Father is the head, Jesus submits to the will of the Father, even thought he is equal to the Father in all ways, and the Spirit being equal with God the Father and God the Son, submits to them and does their will because it is all of their will. So, the position of "the Son" has nothing to do with being born, or being less than God. It is how we are to see Him in relation to God the Father. Today, being the only begotten son, has little meaning, but 2000 years ago, people would have understood that being the only begotten son meant the Son had all the privileges and rights of the Father. They would have been seen as equal.

Romans 8:1

Here is how it all started. It may seem odd to aproach God like a "job that needs gettin done", but that is how I did it. I can still remember the day. I was driving, and my wife was in the sleeper of the truck. She said "I'm going to take this time on the truck to study God". For some reason I thought to myself "I could do that". I don't think I said anything to her about my decision to "get God done", I just started doing it. I changed the sattelite radio station to a christian talk channel that I had tuned into a couple of times and began to listen to a program that caught my attention. I tackled it with a furry. I was determined to get "it". Whatever "it" was. I had dabbled, played with, skated around, and just down right stuck my big toe in more than once, and I was bound and determined that this time it was going to be the real McCoy so to say. What happened next was to set me on a path that would years later, lead me and my wife to a move to Cheyenne, Wy. I happened to be listening to the radio program Way of the Master with Ray Comfort and Kirt Cammeron. What they were doing was presenting the gospel in a way that I had never before in my life heard.
They said "Gods law (the 10 commandments) was to be used as a mirror to show us our sins". Ray then went on to ask some basic questions. "Have you ever told a lie"?
The person they were interviewing said "of course"
I thought to myself "of course I have. In fact, probably today".
Then he said "what do you call someone who tells lies"?
The person on the radio said "a liar".
I hadn't thought of it that way.
Then He asked "have you ever stolen anything"?
They replied "yeah, but it was a long time ago".
What do you call someone who steels, Ray said.
I guess a theif replied the man.
Thats harsh I thought.
Ray then said "when you steel something, irrespective of its size or worth, you are breaking Gods law and not just mans.
Then he asked "have you ever murdered someone"?
I think both me and the guy on the radio were relieved by this question because we could both say uconditionally "nope".
Then Ray said "Jesus said in Matthew that if you hate someone, you have commited murder in your heart".
I didn't know what to think at this point. I was begining to feel a little uneasy about what a good person I thought I was.
I knew I had blown the one about adultry, and oh yeah, that whole honor your Father and mother thing hadn't worked out to well for me either.
Then Ray said "so, according to your own admission, your a lying, thieving, murderer. So when you die, will you go to heaven or hell?
I was stunned. I had never seen myself that way. Not only had I broken some of the commandments, but in all honesty, I had broken them all. Is this how God was seeing me? I actually was begining to see myself the way God was seeing me and I didn't know how to fix it. All of my best efforts had, at very best, been an absolute failure, and at worst, condemned me. I knew that I wasn't the best guy in the world, but I had thought I had cleaned myself up quite a bit and was a pretty good guy now, but wow! Then I thought, now what? This is all quite eye opening, but if I can't be good, how am I going to get to heaven?
Then Ray said something I will never forget. He said "in order to be saved you must repent and turn away from your sins and turn to God. You must put your trust in Jesus to save you. It is one thing to say I believe in parachutes and another to put one on and jump out of a plane".
I realized for the first time in all these years that I had been saying "I believe in Jesus", but I had never put him on like a parachute and jumped.
I had to know more. Over the next few months, I listened, read, studied, asked questions, and prayed. God began to reveal to me things I had never seen before. And then "it" happened. I was at mom and dad Millers sitting at the table and all of a sudden I knew I was saved. It wasn't something anyone had said or did. I just knew that I had been plucked from hell by grace. Not because of anything I had done, but because of what Jesus had done. I wept.