Holy
Trinity Sunday is observed on the First Sunday after Pentecost.
After following all the gospel events over the last 7 months, beginning with
Christmas in December, we concluded this journey on Trinity Sunday with the
question: Who is the God that so graciously saved and sanctified us?
Contemplating
the impact our confession of the Trinity has on our faith and worship, is not
about asking the mathematical questions about how 3 can be one and one can be
3. No, the Holy Trinity has been revealed to show us the essence of the
character of God and when we see this, it should bring us to worship, to being
in awe and reverence! And at the centre of God’s character is that he is
a relational God. The essence of God is that he, from all eternity, exists as
God in the relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The
Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God – the one and only
true God. And the three ways of God’s being are in perfect harmony, at peace
with one another. The best known Hebrew word is “Shalom” and means “the
peace of God”. When we wish each other “shalom” it means that we
pray that the peaceful relationship that God has as the very essence of his
being, will extend to us, to you! That, as God is in perfect harmony with
himself, he will be in harmony with us as well.
Holy
Trinity, meaning in essence God-in-relationship, desires us to share in his peace
and harmony. The Father created us for this purpose and the Son came to create
for us this harmony, by giving his life to take away the sin that stands
between us and God. The Holy Spirit was sent to live in us to grant us faith
and power in order to have a relationship with the Father through our
relationship with the Son.
God
calls us to be one with him and to, in obedience to him, be
commissioned by him and sent into the world to share his peace with all who
still live outside a relationship with him.
Glory to
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit! As it was in the beginning it is now,
and will forever be!
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