Trinity Sunday 30.5.10 Never enough praise
We can never give Almighty God adequate worship, never adequately state His true worth. This is because of our own limitations. We are so much less than He is that our attempts to describe Him are always going to be lacking. It would be like an ant trying to describe a mountain.
But as long as we enter fully into the worship we offer we are then giving Him all we have and that is pleasing to Him.
Also we can grow in our love for Him and this will happen if we approach Him in the right way. So, small as we are, we can get bigger in terms of our capacity to love God. We are drawn into His inner life and share in the infinite love between the Three Persons
We may not be able to explain it, may not be able to understand it, but we will be experiencing it. We are swept up into a greater love when we come into His presence.
That love will cure us of whatever limits we have brought on ourselves through sin: such as pride, malice, false gods, lack of vision. We are gradually and steadily set free from these limits and can become as pure as the angels as we sing with them in heavenly chorus.
Limit 1: Way we seek happiness. It is possible that we undervalue God Himself and overvalue some of the things He has made. So sometimes Heaven is spoken of a place of endless pleasure where one can indulge one’s favourite things on earth forever – be it drinking beer, playing scrabble, watching cricket. But the ultimate happiness of heaven is not any one thing or number of things but simply relationship with God. If that sounds boring it means we have not yet discovered the beauty and wonder of God.
God is so good and so desirable but one has to acquire a taste for Him. We have to move towards Him. The more we do that the more we discover how desirable He is. The saints lead the way in this. By God’s gift we can make progress in knowing and loving Him. We advance in our quest for Him.
Once we begin in this direction the doors will open, and our eyes too.
(Even in this life union with God our greatest happiness. We need love but people think they can love without God , cf the growing practice of people marrying outside of churches. People seek love but without God. It cannot work.)
Limit 2: Way we pray. There is need for absolute reverence when we approach Almighty God. He relaxes the rules for us to let us approach so close to Him. We must not become complacent about this. In the current day Church we find people walking all over the sanctuary, talking, laughing, eating in church. They have turned it into a marketplace all over again. There has been a loss of the sense of the sacred. We have become too ‘familiar’ with the sacred. We need to restore the Fear of the Lord without going to the opposite extreme of seeing Him as unapproachable.
Limit 3: Way we relate to each other. The fact of the Trinity teaches us about God’s own way of relating with Himself. He is Three Persons in perfect harmony and balance. There is no discord or hint of friction between the three Persons. This is mind-blowing for us because in our human experience there is always conflict even in a two-person relationship, let alone three.
But God’s inner peace is a strong sign to the human race that we were meant to get along a lot better with each other than we have managed so far.
Unity of heart at least is required. We cannot agree with everyone on every point. but we must maintain charity and goodwill. We want every other person to be in union with God and to be drawn into His light.
We can never exhaust the mystery of God Himself. Even in Heaven where we see Him face to face we will never reach the end of learning about Him. If we can never give Him enough praise, we can at least give Him more.
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