God's Partners in Creation

Our appointed Scripture passages for Trinity Sunday make it clear to us that the meaning of the Trinity is one of relationship between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. It is a creative relationship into which God invites us. The first chapter of the first book of the Bible – Genesis – is about just that: God’s inviting the human race into a creative partnership – a partnership in which “the creation” is never really completed, but instead, as a part of God’s plan, is continually becoming, continually evolving, continually inching its way toward blossoming into the beauty and fullness and wholeness that God intends for it to be. As Christians, we know that we are invited into this creative process through Jesus Christ, and there is no clearer call to the Christian Community than Jesus’ “Great Commission” that is given in the Gospel passage for Trinity Sunday: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age." Mt. 18:18-20. It is a command – not a suggestion . . . not an invitation to talk it over at tea or over a beer – it is both a command and at the same time an assurance – an assurance that Jesus does not leave us alone, but is forever with us in the mission that He sets before us.