Our Relational God

What is the significance of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, in our lives? If God is relational, and we are created in his image, what does this mean for us and for our relationship with God and others? 

Our God is a relational God. Our God has always been in relationship with himself in the Trinity. God has always been Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

Because our God is a relational God, we are called into relationship with him and with others. God invites us to join him in the relationship of the Trinity. 

In the Great Commission, in Matthew’s gospel account, we see this invitation to join in this relationship of the Trinity, and we see the invitation to invite others into this relationship of God, when Jesus said to his disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20, ESV). 

God invites us to be his disciples, together with him, and together with one another. We are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We are baptized into the relationship of the Trinity. As the Church, we are in relationship with the body of Jesus, with one another, together with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Our God is relational and is calling us into the relationship of the Trinity and into the relationship of his body the church.

May we enter into the relational dance of the Trinity as we relate to God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and as we enter into relationship with one another as his disciples, as the body of Christ-God’s Church.

A Collect for Trinity Sunday: “Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019). 

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