Creation (Trinity A)
The readings this week remind me of the hymns at the beginning of our hymnal. Songs like This Is My Father's World, For The Beauty of the Earth, Praise Ye The Lord or I Sing the Mighty Power of God. Songs of creation and providence come under the heading of The Godhead.
God the creator was fully vested in his work as he created the Spirit hovered and the Word flowed from his lips. When he created man in his own image it was the fellowship he knew in Himself.
"What [Karl Barth] has helped us understand is that relationship is at the heart of what it means to be 'in the image of God' and that the relationship between male and female is the human expression of our relationship with God."[i]
The disciples worshiped the Son on the Mountain before he left. Jesus declared that all the power in heaven and earth had been given to him. The power and authority of the heavens and earth echo down through history as the very words He spoke creating them in the first place. How right they worshipped, and he is with them-with
us-to the end of the age!
Jesus in his authority commanded them to make disciples who would obey everything he had commanded. Paul says, "Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you."
The benediction is repeated and expanded when he adds, "May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."
Is this the same as the first benediction? The first addressed to the Godhead and the second to the persons in the trinity ascribing to them distinctions in the way they bless us?
Three Personed God, lift our eyes to your transcendence this week as we see your authority and power in your creation and in our lives pour out all the grace, love, fellowship and peace that are ours in the Son.
Amen.
[i] Richard J. Foster. The Challenge Of The Disciplined Life (San Francisco: HarperSanFancisco, 1994.) 92.
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