Trinity Sunday 22.5.16 God’s Day
Today we focus on God Himself. If we have Mothers Day and Remembrance Day and the like, this can be called God’s Day!
Is it possible that someone so great could be so much ignored, not to say rejected? We would not believe it, except that it happens.
Let us focus our minds on Him today.
It is hard for the lesser to understand the greater. If we can never fully understand God we can at least avoid some of the gross errors that humanity makes – such as denying His existence; or adjusting their belief to the most recent set of circumstances – such as saying: If I am happy then God exists; if I am unhappy then He does not exist!
He is far beyond my world, and my highs and lows. So much so that humility is needed at all times, lest in our pride and arrogance we make ourselves equal with Him, and presume to judge Him. (And we are not as merciful to Him as He is to us!)
We ask Him to help us to know Him, to believe in Him in all weathers, never letting appearances distract us.
The clouds sometimes cover the sun, but the sun is always shining. So God is always existing, in full power and glory, and seeking to communicate Himself to us.
He tells us that He is a Trinity of Persons. One God but three Persons. We can speak of each of the Persons as God. Anything one of them does is done by God. We never speak of ‘Gods’ in the plural.
From this we learn that God has His own inner life, which is far more vibrant and active than we might have thought.
We might think of God as static, just being there, but not doing much. An impersonal presence.
In fact, God is dynamic. He is more alive than we are; smarter than we are. He could write better plays than Shakespeare, better music than Mozart. He could run the country better than the government does (any country!).
God is perfection within Himself. He does not need us, but He does want us. He is happy without us, and even more happy with us, we could say.
We put a lot of importance on love between humans. He can also love far better than we can.
It is only our sin and disobedience that obscures His goodness from us. If we would trust Him, we would experience His love more directly.
We cannot understand all that happens but if we trust Him moment by moment - go along for the ride, so to speak – then all will become clear.
We stand on the edge of an ocean. We are not able to cross the ocean, nor reach its depths, but we can at least swim in it.
And that is what we are doing as we come before God in all His majesty.
It does us good, and gives Him pleasure.
It does us good to discover that God is unlike us in one very important point. He will never let us down; He is reliable at all times. He asks us to trust Him even if there is much we do not know.
As we worship the Blessed Trinity we will acquire a stronger sense that we stand on very solid ground if we put our faith in God.
All glory be to Him.
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