Dear Rehoboth,

This week we have another Sunday that has a theme. Last week we were celebrating Pentecost. So the goal was to fit the word Pentecost and holy spirit into the sermon as many times as I could so you didn’t forget that it was indeed Pentecost. This week is called “Trinity Sunday.” So, you can guess what the goal of this sermon is, to explain the Trinity. If that is what you are thinking or if that is what you want, I am sorry to disappoint you. I am not going to give a sermon on a doctrine. Because if you think my sermons are boring now, just you wait if I start preaching doctrinal sermons. But, that doesn’t mean I am not going to preach the Trinity. I heard someone say that instead of preaching the Trinity this week, just preach the God in the text and if you do it right, it will be trinitarian. I like that thought. Whenever we talk about God, we have to talk trinitarian. So this week, I am going to preach on the God I see in Psalm 8, and we are hopefully going to learn something about this trinitarian God. 

Psalm 8 is a hymn of praise to God. It catalogs all that God is doing. But in the middle there is a switch in which the psalmist asks a question that I think we have all asked before, who am I. I can’t be the only one who has looked up into the starry night sky and just thought who am I. Do you ever read your Bible and have to pinch yourself that everything that happened was done for you? I do all the time. I think about the trials and tribulations that people like Moses, and Shiprah and Puah go through. The hard life that David lived. I imagine Daniel in the lion’s den. I see John the Baptist, clearing the way for Jesus. I think back at Jesus upon the cross, and I think who am I? Who am I that all of this would be done for me? It’s a crazy thing to think about. I think for this Trinity Sunday we can avoid the boring breaking a part of the Trinity and trying to explain it and rather focus in on who God is through the lens of the question “Who am I.” That question may have a lot to say about you and me, but I think it has, even more, to say about God. We ask the question about ourselves because it doesn’t make sense that God would make us a little lower than the angels. Despite everything that I am, that God who created those starry skies, choose me to help God care for creation. Maybe it’s just me, but that says some wild about our God. 

This week I want to rest in this question “who am I” and I think in that wrestling I will learn about this trinitarian God that we have. I think I will learn what it means that we have a three in one God. This week I encourage you to rest in this question “Who am I” and think about what it teaches you about God. I think we will find that this is not just a God worthy of praise but our God who is worthy of praise. 

Thank you for rambling with me this week. I do encourage you to respond to my ramblings. I would love to hear back from you all. I hope you have a blessed week and I hope to see you all Sunday.

Grace and Peace,

Pastor Lee