June 12, 2022 Holy Trinity Sunday
Holy Trinity
John 3:1-17
June 12, 2022
“Born Again from Above”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
I was at the hospital the other day and heard the music playing. BroMenn, now Carle, hospital plays music over the speakers whenever a baby is born so everybody in the hospital gets to share the joy. Now when that baby emerged from his mother’s womb, how well did he know his Mom and Dad? Could he pick them out of a lineup? Yes, he knows their voices most likely. But what else does he know about them? The doctor doesn’t hold up the baby and say, “Now, baby, please tell us if this is really your Mom and Dad. Please identify and name your parents for us before we hand you over to them.” In reality, baby knows very little about Mom and Dad at all. But rather is born into this family that he didn’t choose and learns to know them day by day.
A similar truth can be said about this baby’s knowledge of God. The doctor also doesn’t say, “Now, baby, that you’re out of the womb and we’ve got you all cleaned up, please tell us, we’d like to know, where you came from. Please explain to us Who made you and Who it is that has made everything else here and what exactly your purpose is of being born into the world.”
As foolish as it sounds for a newborn baby to know everything about his Mom and Dad and everything about God who made him, it’s as foolish also for us to think that we can and should know everything about God. Why do you and I so often insist that we should or even can know everything about God? Of course you don’t know and understand everything about God. He is God! You are not.
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