Romans 5:1-5 Trinity Sunday
Pastor Ron Koehler
Grace—Tucson, AZ
June 15, 2025
The Three-in-One God Gives You Three Incredible Gifts Maybe you’ve done this when you’ve been on an airplane. You look down as you’re taking off or landing, and you notice the movement of all the cars and trucks on the roads and highways. You see them streaming along the straightaways and curling around cloverleaf interchanges. From the sky you see a swirling mass of vehicles that doesn’t stop. It’s like a carefully choreographed dance. It’s fascinating how it all works. There’s even a certain beauty to it…from the air. Once you land and you’re in one of those vehicles that someone else is watching from the sky, it may not look beautiful; it may be more frustrating than fascinating! It depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? If you’re like most people, you may find that some things related to God can be quite fascinating and frustrating at the same time. There are lots of examples, but today we’re skipping all of them and going straight at the triune nature of God…the three-inone nature of God…one God yet three “persons”…the Trinity. Fascinating that the triune God is something we can’t fully comprehend and understand! Frustrating that the triune God is something we can’t fully comprehend and understand! As we think about the Trinity today, this can go one of two ways. You can be so frustrated and say, “How can that be?! It doesn’t make sense! How can I believe something I can’t even understand?!” Or, you can be a little humble and remember that this is God we are talking about, not another human being. You can choose to just listen and put yourself in the mind frame that what you are hearing today is true. It is what God says about himself and about the gifts that he says he gives to you. If you will do that, I think you’ll find God fascinating…and worthy of your love and your life.