TrinityB24.   Exodus 24:3-8.    God has shown himself as God: almighty, awesome, loving, caring, generous, and gracious.  “The Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.”  Let us respect him as the God who alone is our life.

Matthew 28:16-20.  God the Father has put Jesus in charge with the power to accomplish his will, designs and plans.  Jesus said, “Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”  His commandment is: “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” (John 13:34b) Jesus promises to be with us always so to pour his love into us so that we all have love to pour into one another.  Accepting God’s will is accepting God’s love so that we are one with him with his love as our life.

Romans 8:14-17.  “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”  As members of God’s family, we ought to live with our Father’s love for us as our life and not with this world as our life.  To reject this world as our life’s being we have to suffer this world’s rejection of us.  The source of our joy is the life the Holy Spirit gives us daily and not the earthly pleasures this world gives.