Gospel Reading for Trinity Sunday: Year B
John 3: 1 to 17
“Jesus answered, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.” (John 3:5)
While most Christians will gravitate towards John 3:16, I have examined John 3:5 more closely. We have our own Trinitarian existence in being flesh, and water, and spirit. But as our Lord Jesus points out, it is water and spirit that enables us to enter the kingdom of God.
I have heard somewhere in my old school science classes that our bodies are made up mostly of water. And then with baptism we become immersed with water and the Spirit. It is astonishing to me that knowing this, still, many Christian people will work and hustle their entire adult lives in support of their bodies, which will eventually wear out.
Today is Trinity Sunday. While we are focused on the Creator, Sustainer and Redeemer, I invite us to also look at our own makeup. We are flesh, water and spirit brought into existence by the same Trinity. The spirit we have is the very Spirit embedded in us from God almighty. This spirit is our passport into the kingdom of heaven. If we are to do anything worthwhile, it should be study, prayer and pondering that will enhance our spirit that will be with us in all eternity.
Please keep up your thoughts and prayers and hopes for Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Palestine, and our schools including St. Augustine in Raleigh, North Carolina.
As we listen to what the Spirit of God is saying to us, let us live to love and serve, and to teach others to love and serve, while pondering anew what the Almighty can do. John
(Taken from page 228 of the Book of Common Prayer) Let us pray: 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.
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