Trinity Sunday
EX 34:4-6 & 8-9; 2 COR 13:11-13; JN 3:6-18 (Year A)
There is, within us all, a lingering fear that God is unapproachable. The prophet Isaiah described this seemingly unbridgeable gulf separating sinful humanity from a transcendent God perfectly: “Yes, as the heavens are high above the earth, so are my ways above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.”
The prophet had emphasised this gulf only to stress the graciousness of a hidden God who longed to draw near to his people, who had revealed himself to Moses as “a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness”.
