Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
The Trinity is an experience before it is a doctrine for the Church. We may think of complex formulas and the many heresies that got the doctrine wrong. The Church does indeed value correctness here! But the reason she does is so that we might have an experience of the Trinity. God desires that we "may become partakers of the divine nature" (see Second Peter 1:4). He wants us to dwell in him and he in us.
just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us (see John 17:21)
Jesus comes and reveals the face of the Father to a world who couldn't sin him clearly through our own brokenness and sin.
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. (see John 14:9).
We see not a face of wrath to be placated, but the Father of prodigals who longs for all of his lost children to return home.
Jesus gives us his own Spirit so we can more perfectly know the Father.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you received a Spirit of adoption,
through whom we cry, "Abba, Father!"
This is our identity. It is something we can lean and rely on in any trial. We are sons in the Son. This fact sends the devil running. It casts the fear from our hearts.
This is why it is so important to fix in our hearts who God is and all he has done to bring us salvation.
This is why you must now know,
and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God
in the heavens above and on earth below,
and that there is no other.
It is not so we can pass a test in a Trinitarian Theology class, at least not mainly. It is so we can know more fully who God is and who we are in him. To the degree that we experience God as some monolithic abstraction we not only get it wrong but we don't avail ourselves of all of the opportunities we have to relate to him. He is indeed the first principle of all things. But he is true Father. Jesus shows us how to be sons. He unites us to himself and fills us with his own Spirit so that we can truly be so.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
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