There is a phenomenon that is sweeping America. It is called, The Food Network. What makes this channel so remarkable is that it has found a home in the TV viewing habits of both men and women. Using competitions, like The Iron Chef, Iron Chef America, Chefs vs The City, and Chopped, men have began to switch over when the coverage of interesting sports (football and baseball; nothing else counts that much) is diminished. Now they have hooked me on a non-competitive show, it is called, The Best Thing I Ever Ate.

Like Pavlov’s dog, every time that show comes on I begin to salivate. It speaks to the deepest veins of fatness rooted in my subconscious. My mind begins to scroll through the annals of all the great foods I have eaten over the years. What would be the “best thing I ever ate?” Without question, one delightful morsel comes immediately to the forefront of my culinary lust glands. On a cruise, some years ago, Jan and I had a delectable bread pudding that literally melted in our mouths. The bread was succulently sweet. The fullness of raisins popped in your mouth. It was held together with a lemon crème sauce that oozed with “yumminess.” It was “the best thing I ever ate.”

As I began to consider the foundations of our faith, I remembered this bread pudding. When we consider who God is, two truths come to mind. First, the Lord is one God (Deut. 6:4). An additional fact is equally true; there is a single Godhead, eternally co-existent in three persons existing distinctly, yet remaining one (1Pet. 1:2; Col. 2:9). This is referred to as the Trinity. Now here is where the bread pudding thing fits in. That wonderful dish consisted of bread, sweet and light, which could be eaten separately. Raisins, a fun snack, add a distinct flavor. The lemon crème sauce is almost too delicious to eat by itself, yet it adds a certain “unami” to the bread pudding. Remove any one of these three ingredients and the dish would cease to be bread pudding. The Godhead is three in power, activity and purpose. Yet they are one. You cannot understand the deity of God apart from the Godhead. Broadman sums it up this way, “The Father is all the fullness of the Godhead invisible (John 1:18); the Son is all the fullness of Godhead manifested (John 1:4-18); the Spirit is all the fullness of the Godhead acting immediately upon the creature (1 Cor. 2:9, 10). I love it when food and theology come together.