Trinity Sunday

05-31-2020Weekly Reflection

An English Novelist by the name of Graham Greene said that he refuses to believe in a God he could not understand. It is the nature of God to reveal Himself, so that people will love Him more, know Him better, and live a life of faith in Him. But there are mysteries about God that defy human understanding. The greatness of God indeed surpasses human understanding or wisdom. The gap between the finger of God and Adam in Michael Angelo’ Sistine Chapel painting is probably about an inch, but is so much larger in life. That is why the basic foundation of spirituality is the understanding of this dictum: Let God be God, and let man be man. Man is aware of God’s love, because we experience it in our life and the day to day realities of life. Whatever we know about Him is through His Son, Jesus Christ, “He became like us in all things, except in sin.” In Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit’s divinity is unveiled in His humanity.

At times, we cannot fathom the mysteries of God’s divinity, because He is beyond conventional human wisdom. The mystery of the Holy Trinity is still more difficult to understand for it defies human logic and mathematics. Faith is believing without seeing or fully comprehending something. It is based on trust, and many times, trust for a large part is based on experience. As they say, No one trusts someone they don’t really know. Our faith is based on Jesus words about the Father. “You have faith in God, have faith also in Me.” (Jn. 14:1) Jesus is the Son of God who revealed the lifegiving activity of the Father. “Faith is the assurance of the things hoped for, and the conviction of things not seen. (Heb. 11:1)

Believing in Jesus words is not simply like an intellectual ascent of the truths, doctrines and dogmas, nor an emotional outburst of high feeling, it is loving Him more, knowing Him better and living a life of faith in Him, following His words and His deeds. In life, it means standing for His truths, standing for Christian and human values and principles even when they are unpopular. God’s grace and truth is always there: covering all the windows of our house will make it dark even if the sun is there. Unless we open the windows or door the light cannot shine in. God’s grace and truth is locked out, unless we open the door or windows of our heart. God respects human freedom so much, that He is willing to take the risks of rejection.

Our saving God is “a gentle breeze carrying the fragrance of mercy, trust and hope.” A strong force that opens the hearts of the believer to remove all barriers of unbelief and accept His saving power. Jesus did not come to condemn the world but to save it and bring life to all. Being more understanding saves a lot of relationships. Understanding people most often prevents condemnation, for we want to save, to listen and understand carefully the reason behind an action. Jesus’ ministry projects always the image that He came to save, not to judge the past and the present, but to be hopeful of one’s future. In the same way, Jesus asks us to approach one another not with an eye to condemn, but to appeal to what is good and to save the other.