Trinity Sunday 12 June 2022 Infinite and Eternal
A question that often arises is Who made God? If anyone made God that being would be God.
God is the beginning of all other things, but He himself had no beginning. He exists outside of time; He created time.
Time is very important to us in trying to understand reality, but not all reality fits inside the time viewpoint.
We might think of eternity as a very long time, but more accurately it is no time, no change.
[It could be seen as comparable to how one could write a story and put whatever time frame on it, plus other circumstances. I could make my characters in any place or time etc. It would be my universe, and nothing that happened in the story could affect me in my real life]
God does allow people to override His will in limited degrees, but nothing can be forced from Him. He cannot be harmed in any way by humans or demons. It is His universe but He is separate from it. He does allow Himself to feel some of our pain, but again, that is only because He allows it.
He gives us a chance to share in his glory. We have a choice whether we accept His terms or try to do better for ourselves.
We need not fear Him insofar as He is benevolent. He is powerful but means well to us. unlike the demons and many people.
We try to understand God from our very limited perspective and we fall short. If we see it from His side it is easier to understand. He has it all in view at all times. He understands everything.
He is in complete control. He relaxes that control in certain circumstances but He always has power to take it up again (cf Christ, I have power to lay down My life and to take it up again (Jn 10, 18))
God shares His being with lesser creatures, without losing anything of His own being.
He could obliterate the whole creation if he wanted. Or He could make a thousand universes
It should not bother us too much if we cannot understand some aspect of God's nature or actions. We can be sure that He understands, and that is enough.
God knows everything of what happens, of every detail. He would know how many grains of sand there are, for instance, because He put them there.
We cannot possess reality like that. We forget, get confused etc.. partly because our nature is limited in what it can do, and partly because of sin, which dulls our perception.
We would know a lot more if we had never sinned; we find our way back through repentance. We give God whatever response He asks from us. We hope this pleases Him, and that it will put us in a better state. The more we can interact with God the more we will receive His blessings. His pure and perfect life will continually enrich our lives.
Today we honour Almighty God as being the Blessed Trinity, where the three Persons live in perpetual and perfect love of each other.
As it is in the nature of love to be shared, so the Blessed Trinity invites us to share in their inner life.
God has no need of our company, but chooses to share what He has with us. It is like someone at a banquet who has every good thing available, and seeing a freezing beggar offers to bring him into the banquet. This is what God does for us.
In the end, whatever our level of understanding, we accept God as He is, in all His ways of revealing Himself to us. We accept a share in His life and thus we are saved. All glory to the Blessed Trinity!
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