Daily Worship

Team Trinity

Neil Urquhart July 28, 2014 0 0

Genesis 1:26-28

Genesis 1:26-28

26 Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’

27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’

Introduction: The word ‘Competition’ originally meant ‘to strive together’ (Latin’s competere), somehow (perhaps through sin’s influence) today it translates, ‘try to overcome another’. God combined to create humans in the Garden before The Fall, when sin entered with spoiling effect. It could be argued that the movement from ‘striving with’ to ‘striving over and against’ charts the journey from Eden to the murderous world out with, into which humans descend. The co-operative creative dance of God ‘perichoresis’ in which each person of the Trinity centres and dances around the others to bring about Creation, is the same dance into which humans are called. Of course, it is through Christ that God draws us back into this ‘True Competing’ / ‘striving together’ for God’s Glory.

 

Titanic God, we worship you in your Team Trinity.
Almighty Father, Saving Son and Inspiring Spirit, mesmerised by your mystery, three persons and one God,
we are further amazed that you ‘call me up’ into Your Team!
What a privilege to share in Your Worldwide Team Work.
As people from all over the world come to Scotland,
help us to share your kindness, hospitality, and Good News.
Forgive me for times when I try life alone and do things in my own strength.
How encouraging to know that I am in your Trinity Team
and have many brothers and sisters to strive together with! 

 

Rev. Neil Urquhart, Fullarton Parish Church and Chaplain at the 2014 Commonwealth Games