Reflections on Holy Trinity June 3rd, 2012 at Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church of Irvine (LC-MS)

Dear Friends,

Many of you have probably seen “the trinity diagram” before. It looks like this:

The diagram is profound and should never be reduced to stale theology and academic information. The diagram is essentially cyclical. There is no beginning or end. This simple fact demonstrates that God is eternal and as the eternal One, He IS existence and life, and therefore the extension of all existence and life.

Here, however, is the real marvel: He doesn’t have to further extend existence and life to us, and yet He does. This leads us  to another crucial insight about the Holy Trinity: God desires to give, that is, God desires to love. He is love too.

So in the simple and yet magnificent doctrine of the Holy Trinity, we know the Lord who gives us life and who gives us love. And our reflections only grow more profound…

No matter what we’ve done, no matter how low we may get, and no matter what we think we have built up in the way of walls and resisting mental and soulish fortresses, God the Holy Trinity continues to extend Himself to you with the gifts of His life and love. These are not theories based on an interesting (and accurate) diagram, but through the proof that in Christ Who was and Who is and Who will be forever the ultimate expression of the gift of God’s life and love that conquers our sin and death.

The Father has promised this life and love; the Son has proven it; and the Holy Spirit reveals it to us. The Holy Trinity is God and He is the answer to our despair, our doubts, and our sinful efforts to cut ourselves off from life and love, but He never tires and we find that He still extends Himself. The Word of Jesus once again proves it, even while we were yet sinners, He died for us (Romans 5:8).

In Christ,

Dr. Espinosa

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