Trinity and Wisdom

I have taken a break from writing on the blog and I appreciate your patience while I was gone. 

Blessings to you.

Father Fred

Last weeks scripture reading.

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Does not wisdom call,
and does not understanding raise her voice?

On the heights, beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;

beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries out:

"To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all that live.

The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.

Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.

Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth--

when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world's first bits of soil.

When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,

when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,

when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master worker;

and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,

rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race."

John 16:12-15




Jesus said to the disciples, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you."

The Sermon:

Trinity Sunday

This reading from John is hard to figure out. Jesus is talking to his disciples and he is telling them there is still lots to know but they aren't ready for it. Earlier in chapter 16 Jesus tells his disciples that they will be cast out of the synagogue and anyone who kills them will assume they are doing it as a service to God. Then he tells them the Spirit of Truth will come and he will guide you into all the truth. He won't speak on his own but will speak for the Father.

I do not pretend to understand how the relationship works between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit to me seems to be the most elusive. Maybe understanding the relationship is not that important. What is important is that God, whether it be the Father, Son or Holy Spirit stand for truth. God stands for love in its deepest sense. Maybe that is all we truly need to know. Those guiding principles of truth and love impact everything we do and say.

People who live their lives through truth and love do not steal. They do not cheat. They do not kill. They have honest loving relationships with people in their lives.

We know we are in God's hands. If we have that trust in God so many of life's temptations can fall to the wayside.

The first reading is from proverbs and I would encourage you to spend some time this week reading it. Proverbs is believed to have been writing by Solomon. The Hebrew title of the book is, “The Proverbs of Solomon.” It was written approximately three thousand years ago. One thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ.

The excerpt we read today is tied to the creation story and it talks about how wisdom was there when all of creation took place. Wisdom was there before the beginning of the earth. Wisdom was before waters and earth and sky and the stars in the heavens. And, I believe, Wisdom will be there if all of this ends. We will be there with wisdom and with God.

You might also notice when you read Proverbs that wisdom is female. Who knew??