Trinity Sunday

June 11, 2006

It’s nice to see the summer has arrived…at last.  But oh, how British I am, I complaining I’m too hot!

The sun has been shining magnificently over the last few days and it has been the perfect antidote to all that rain and cool winds we endured in May. 

The sun can help us to understand something of the nature of God.

The sun burns so brightly that we are advised never to look directly at it.  From the sun comes light, and that light gives life to the things on earth.  Without that light, all life would suddenly end.  Nothing can live without that light.

From the sun also comes warmth.  The sun heats the earth and encourages growth.  Without heat there would be no life on earth.  It would be a frozen waste.

The sun in the sky, with it’s heat and it’s light are all joined together.  Obviously if any one of these were absent, there would be no life on the earth.

This  can remind us of God the Father who is the maker of all things.  He is so wonderful and mysterious that we cannot see him.  But, like the sun, he is always there.

Jesus is like the light coming from the sun.  In fact, Jesus called himself “the light of the world”.  He came to drive away the darkness and to help us to walk in the brightness of the day.  He rose from the darkness of death that we might have eternal life.

The Holy Spirit cannot be seen, just as heat cannot be seen.  But like the heat from the sun encourages growth, so the Holy Spirit encourages and enable us to grow strong in faith.

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Three in one.

Rev Fred Ireland