This Sunday is Trinity Sunday and our scriptures are Psalm 8 and Romans 5:1-5.
The Trinity is hard to explain. In the hymn, “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!”, we sing in the first stanza: “God in three persons, blessed Trinity!” And while understanding the Trinity will take an eternity, I do want to lift up two things about this Sunday’s scriptures.
In Psalm 8, it is explicitly about God the Father and Maker of the universe. Who are we, the author of Psalm 8 asks, that God would be mindful of us and make us just a little lower than angels? When we gaze into the skies and see the moon and stars suspended in space, when we observe different animals, or when we take a walk on the beach, we can be reminded that God the Father of all is the Source of Love. Out of Love, everything was made and God called it good. And when God made humanity, God called them very good.
From the Source of Love, Jesus Christ lived among us, taught, died, and was resurrected for us. Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, is Incarnate Love. And through Love Incarnate, as Paul writes in Romans 5:1, we have peace with God the Father and peace with each other because of Jesus Christ’s faithful work.
And it doesn’t stop there. The Holy Spirit, the same Spirit who was breathed into the frightened disciples in the upper room, the same Holy Spirit who descended like wind and fire onto the early Church, has been poured out in us from God, the Source of Love (Romans 5:5). The Holy Spirit, beloved in Christ, is the Transforming Power of Love! It is through the Spirit’s constant work in our lives that we are continuously transformed. God the Holy Spirit, Transforming Love, uses us to be ambassadors of love in a world that is in desperate need of it.
Believe the Good News, friends.
Christ’s Peace,
Pastor T. Wes