Unity And The Loving Community
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What is the most loving community you have ever been a part of? Where did that love come from? How did that loving community express itself in love to one another?
God is in loving community with himself from the foundation of the world—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God’s Spirit leads us to the Father through his Son. Our relationship with God’s Son Jesus redeems us and makes us adopted children of God, so that we may join the loving community of God as his children.
We are invited to join in with the love of God and the community of God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as God’s beloved children. We are also called to love one another the same as we are loved by God.
This invitation is what Jesus expressed to Nicodemus in John’s Gospel, when he said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” (John 3:16, ESV).
God’s love is a Trinitarian reality. Without the solid and true foundation of God’s triune nature, there would be no love and God would not have the capacity to love anyone.
C.S. Lewis highlights this communal love relationship of The Trinity in his book “Mere Christianity”, when he writes, “All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that "God is love." But they seem not to notice that the words 'God is love' have no real meaning unless God contains at least two persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love.” (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952; Harper Collins: 2001) 174-176.).
God is Trinity. And God is love. As the Apostle John expressed, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another…. We love because God first loved us.” (1 John 4:7-11 and 19, ESV).
May we dance in the love of The Trinity as we love our God of love who has enabled us to love one another as he has loved us.
In Christ alone, Robbie
Prayer And Blessing: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV).
In the name of The One Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen!
A Prayer For Trinity Sunday: “Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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