Week 2 (5 - 11 Jan): We Worship a Triune God

Celebrating our January babies! This service was hosted by Belimbing.

It has been such a joy seeing everyone at the onsite services this past few weeks! We are starting the year by going back to basics and returning to our statement of faith. At our first service of the year, our guest speaker, C, spoke on the Word of God and how it should guide our lives. On Saturday, Dr Robbie Goh preached a sermon on the triune God that we worship.

God is three in one: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Because His ways are far higher than ours, and because He is far bigger than we can ever imagine, we often struggle to fully grasp how God can be both three and one. The Trinity may remain a mystery to us, but this mystery should invite humility and reverence, rather than doubt. As Dr Robbie was preaching, I could not help but marvel at the perfection of God, and His salvation plan. 

Each person of the Triune God is distinct, and yet perfectly one, eternally united in love. Before creation, before humanity, there was already love and relationship within the Trinity: the Father loving the Son, the Son delighting in the Father, and the Holy Spirit uniting them in perfect fellowship. We were made in the image of Love.

Because our Heavenly Father is perfect in every way, He cannot condone our sin. But because He is also perfectly loving, He will not leave us in it. Dr Robbie reminded us of the uniqueness of the Christian gospel – that God Himself came to die for our sins, and to reconcile us back to Him.

Dr Robbie also shared about how we were made to worship Him. It reminded me of something I read previously:

“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.”

This quote has often been attributed to the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. 

There is indeed a God-shaped vacuum in each of us, and only God can fill it. We are often tempted to look to other things to satisfy this longing within us, but they will never be enough. Only the love of God is deep enough to meet us completely. May we live more and more in the fullness of His love for us.

On behalf of RT1,

Lycia