Scripture: Acts 2:16-17
…this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young will see visions. Your elders will dream dreams.
Thought for the Day: This is the beginning of Peter’s sermon on Pentecost. In this sermon and others found in the book of Acts, we hear a history told of God’s work in the world, a history that often appears in three segments – Creation/Israel, Jesus/Christ and the church/Holy Spirit. My former professor of theology, Dr. Joe Jones, separates it this way (from Joe’s website: grammaroffaith.com) when he speaks about God’s relationship to the world through these self-identifying references:
1. God is the One who elected, liberated, and covenanted with Israel;
2. God is the One who is singularly incarnate in and thereby definitively self-revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth;
3. God is the One who empowers the church into being and moves within creaturely life to give life, new life, and to draw all creatures into a redemptive future.
Though we may see the different faces of the Trinity at different points in history, we must always remember that there is but one God, and as Joe points out, “God is..” all these in each and all cases. God does not turn one off and then become another. God remains fully God as God has always been fully God.
Prayer: May the fullness of your life, O God, continue to work through me and through all of creation. Allow my faith to see the God of history as the God who is present to me now. Amen.
SUNDAY WORSHIP
We Return To The Trinity
