SUNDAY, May 30 Trinity Sunday

John 16:12-15. I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.

When Jesus ended his earthly mission, he still had "many things to say" to his disciples which they were not then ready to receive. Yet such things need not become the lost words of Jesus if we permit the Spirit of truth to guide us into "all the truth."

Note what this means and what it does not mean. The New Testament writers were inspired and led by God, yet they never pretended to be infallible. Saint Paul admitted that not everything he wrote carried divine authority: "I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion...and I think I too have the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 7:25, 40).

Would that all Christians were so modest and so honest! No person or church can claim infallibility or a monopoly on divine truth. It is enough that God promises to reveal to those who humbly seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit all that they need to know of him and of his saving love.

May the whole church of Christ be led into a more humble and faithful surrender to God's will. (1951)

PRAY for The Church of the Province of Melanesia and the Diocese of Central Melanesia

Ps 8 or Song of the Three Young Men 29-34; Luke 1:46-55; Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5

View the daily Lectionary Readings at Satucket.com.
Or view the Bible passages at Biblegateway.com.

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