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Today's Devotional

Is there anything in the world of such unspeakable importance to us as to know who God is? … We have received everything from God. We belong to him; we are surrounded by him; we are in his hands. Our eternity is to be with the blessed Trinity—with God in a companionship of unspeakable delights; for if we are exiled from him, the absence of that blessed Trinity, will be our intolerable misery. Of what unspeakable importance then is it for us to seek after him and find him out.It is through the never-ending ever-multiplying love of these three persons that we are daily drawn into closer union with the Godhead; it is not only, as David tells us, the greatness of his mercy, but the multitude of his mercies, which makes our trust and confidence in him so inexpressibly consoling, and our union with him so far more intimate than any other tie of which we can conceive. Through the Father’s creating love—the Son’s redeeming love — and the Holy Spirit’s sanctifying love, we are one with God, as our Lord Jesus Christ prayed that we might be, even as the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost are one.

God in three persons, the ever-blessed Trinity, is not only our first cause and fountain….but he is also our last end. And that because he is the reason of our existing at all, because it is for him, for his own glory that we live, and not in anyway for our own sakes; and he is also our last end because we go to him, and rest nowhere but in himself; not in any gifts which he gives us, but simply in his own ever-living, ever-blessed self. Nothing in life has any meaning, except as it draws us further into God, and presses us more closely to him.

Let us look at our whole life by the light of this truth, that God—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—one in three, is the full, perfect, and blessed Beginning and End of every soul which he has created, redeemed, and sanctified.

Trinity, Unity, Deity Eternal;

Majesty, Potency, Brilliancy Supernal.

First and Last, End and Cause—

King of kings, Law of laws,

Judge of all,

Round Whose Throne Angels fall. 

About the author and the source

Traditionally, the Athanasian Creed is recited on Trinity Sunday. We have chosen to provide this meditation on the Trinity.