John 1:1-17
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Luke 10:27
Love God from and With the Heart, Mind, and Soul
27 He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
John 4:23-24
God is Spirit and Truth
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
John 16:13
The Holy Spirit is Truth
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
God sent Jesus to earth to walk among us...So there is this Great Mystery around God, when Jesus says God is Spirit...And there was Great Mystery surrounding Jesus has He walked among among us and taught...There was Great Mystery in Jesus' Resurrection...And there is still Great Mystery in Him, as He sits alive with God in heaven...There is Mystery in how the Word was with God in the beginning, and how the Word became flesh...There is Mystery in how all things were made through Jesus...
There is this same Great Mystery in the Holy Spirit...But Jesus said that the Spirit of Truth, will come, and He will guide us into all the truth...The Holy Spirit will not speak on His own; but He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come...
The more we try to define the Spirit and Trinity of God with words and in a tangible way, we find that it is something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain in one or two and even many words...Mystery is something we need, and we need Mystery in faith...Great Mystery surrounds faith, in my opinion, but does not lessen the faith one has...But often you find believers grasping for more and more tangible answers in their faith and finding them more difficult to find...Not that God wants us to stop using our minds to seek Him (and He tells us to love Him with all our minds), but He is very complex and difficult to explain with just words, with the human mind...So, if we only seek the tangible answers to our faith, it seems that there is more difficulty we might have in finding the Spirit and the Spiritual...Let us use Mystery to help explain the Father and the Son...