Red Rover, Red Rover

Remember this game from when you were a kid? You'd choose up teams and line up facing one another, linking hands and strategically placing the stronger kids between the weaker ones, you'd call someone out from the opposing team. 'Red rover, red rover send Billie right over'. And then Billie, with his team cheering him on would run as fast as he could and try as hard as he could to break through your line of linked hands and arms. if you held, Billie became a part of your team. If he broke through, he would triumphantly return to his team, and then they would call for someone from your team to repeat what Billie just did. It was a great game!
Well, recently God showed me how that children's game was kind of like His church. The idea was God, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit were a team, a community of 3 that functioned together as One. In fact, oneness was at the heart of their community. What they were doing was calling other folks out, calling them by name to come and try to break through their ranks, capturing hearts. Then they would have that newly captured person join them, join their team, be one with them. Of course, whenever someone new would be called out, they would look for what they thought would be the weakest link, which would be the newest person added to God's team; not realizing just how good the original 3 were at making us all very strong.
So 'red rover, red rover, if God's calling you, it's your turn to come over'.
PJ