Aloha Friday Message – June 13, 2025 – Working While Walking With Wisdom
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Proverbs 8:22, 30-31 –
Wisdom’s Part in Creation
22 The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
30 then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
31 rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.
Psalm 8:4-5 –
4 what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God, [1]
and crowned them with glory and honor.
Romans 5:1-2 – 1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
John 16:13 – 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Aloha nui loa, ʻŌmea! Grace and Peace to each of you from God our Father and our Lord, Jesus the Christ, in the Power of the Holy Spirit. This coming Sunday we mark The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Trinity is one of the most challenging tenets of ur F.A.I.T.H. The entire concept of “One God in Three Persons” is difficult to grasp – and it is supposed to be like that. I am going to string together a bunch of adjectives to show what I mean: immutable, unassailable, incontrovertible, indisputable, unchanging and unchangeable, incomprehensible, mind-blowing. One-God-In-Three-Persons means exactly that and nothing other than that. We looked into that about 10 (ten!) years ago in 1522AFC052915 – Whole in One. Here is a little (edited) excerpt from that post:
Unlike 3-IN-ONE® Oil – which is one entity that does three things – God is One Entity that is three things – three Persons (all of whom are Divine, Distinct, and very real). Sometimes we try to understand The Trinity by saying that we, too, are “triune beings,” in that we have a body, soul (intellect and emotion), and spirit. We can see the body, we can experience the soul, but we’re usually stumped by what to think or say about our spirit. It is, after all, the one thing about us that is most like God for “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (See John 4:6-30).
Even knowing that does not allow us to pack it comfortably into our brains. History (Apostolic Tradition), the Scriptures, the Catechism, and the Magisterium of the Church all say the same thing about this concept of Trinity: It is a Mystery. I’m OK with that because that means that I can believe it even if I can’t fully understand it. Why? Because I accept it as being True. To fail to accept it would be colossally unwise! After all, we’re talking about God here, and if that’s what he says, that’s what I believe.
“The Source and Summit of our Faith” is Jesus – the Eucharistic Jesus we encounter at every Mass. He is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Messiah. The Messiah, the Christ of God, is that Perfection of Wisdom that redeems the costly ravages of sin (Death) thereby preparing us to become wholly Holy. Jesus is the Power and the Wisdom of God. Because why? Because Wisdom was there with The Holy Trinity when the universe (with Angels galore!), the Earth, and all persons and creatures who dwell in this Sweet Spot of God’s Favor, this Dear Earth from which our bodies were formed and were then infused with the Ruach of God.
We are the recipients of his Unmerited Favor (Grace – χάρις charis {khar’-ece}) (See 1 Corinthians 1:24 (GNT) [1]– 24 but for those whom God has called, both Jews and Gentiles, this message is Christ, who is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Isaiah 11:2 speaks of the Spirit of the Lord resting upon the Messiah, including the Spirit of wisdom and understanding. 2 The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord
We have previously (↔ Click Link) quoted Colossians 3:15-17 which brings to mind that Jesus is the epitome of Wisdom and Knowledge (after all, he is God!) – 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. For me, that describes a precious and splendid Life in the Light of his Glory and Grace (↔ Music Link)
We also have this, and it is encouraging: Proverbs 23:23 – (GNT)1 23 Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense — these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell. This struck me as one of those, “Well, yeah!” kind of statements. Those for things are certainly worth paying for, and usually we pay for them with experiences that teach us things that are not true, wise, smart, or sensible. “Learn from your mistakes.” But actually, all four of those things are embodied in The Truth. We all remember seeing this at least once in the past 1,000 posts:
(Music Link→) LIGHT ≡ GOD ≡ LOVE ≡ TRUTH ≡ WAY ≡ LIFE ≡ ETERNAL ≡ JUSTICE ≡ OMNIPOTENCE ≡ ONE GOD IN THREE PERSONS
Looking at all these verses gives me great Joy and Hope. God created the Earth with Wisdom – Wisdom was the first Quality of God he called forth. Everything he made, he made for Loving. He made the Universe because he Loved it, and he made us – his earthlings – so he could Love us and we could Love him, too. Then his new earthlings messed up and fell into sin and death – that was NOT what he had planned; BUT he already had an Absolutely Perfect Plan to deal with it – Redemption and Salvation through Christ Jesus. Jesus told his Apostles – and they tell us – that God would send the Holy Spirit to help them (and us!) to remember everything he taught and that the Holy Spirit would also defend us against the Devil. Thinking about that is so reassuring; in fact it gives all of us Blessed Assurance (↔ Music Link). Sometimes it’s hard for us to wrap our head around that Love and Forgiveness. But then we think about what the Psalmist said, and it’s even more amazing.
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3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
4 what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet
or try this link (↔ Music Link)
No! God did not make everything that is Good and then just walk away from it to see if it would hold together. The whole thing, THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE (including all of us scrawny, scrabbling Earthlings) is in his hands. HE is still at work in this World, and whenever we walk with him, he gives us the option (it’s always, always a choice!) to walk and work with him. Even if we feel the weight of sin and separation from God, here’s a little reminder from 938AFC091809 – Circle of Friends:
You say: “I am a sinner, and unlovable.”
God says: I love you enough to die for you. (Romans 5:8; John 3:16-19; 1 Peter 3:18-20) Ther’s a handy little chart in that post, and if you decide to check it out, at least open the link to Romans 5:8 (or do that here).
God did not leave us abandoned! Take a look at Isaiah 41:10 – (GNT) 1
10 Do not be afraid – I am with you!
I am your God – let nothing terrify you!
I will make you strong and help you;
I will protect you and save you.
And let’s not forget Matthew 28:18-20, The Great Commission – 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” That “age” is the Age of the Church, and eon during which we walk and work (↔ Music Link) with Jesus every day. And there we have it. He will bless us with his Spirit and change us with his Love. That’s what it’s like to work alongside Jesus, to work inside Jesus, to work with Jesus inside. That sounds good to us. That sounds smart to us. In fact, that sounds WISE to us because Jesus is the Wisdom of God. And that leads to another memory verse we have referenced many times:
James 1:5 – 5 If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. If Wisdom was the First collaborator with God, and if Jesus is the Wisdom of God, then asking for God’s Wisdom will get us … Jesus! And if we get Jesus, then he will come with us and bring Another Advocate, the Holy Spirit! It is, therefore, very Wise to ask to work with Wisdom because then you work with God. In The Catechism of the Catholic Church §258 we find this (my emphases added): Thus the Church confesses, following the New Testament, “one God and Father from whom all things are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy Spirit in whom all things are.” Does that sound even a little familiar?
How about, “Through Him, with Him and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, almighty Father, for ever and ever.”
“The Church believes in the mediation of Christ alone and His supreme Priesthood. Only “through Him, with Him, and in Him” can we reach the Father who beckons us to receive the Son who bestows the Holy Spirit. “No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) We know that our deeds are pleasing to God through Christ. Our lives united to His life, to His death and to His resurrection, are glory and honor to the Trinity. “ As you can infer from this animation, when one Person of the Trinity acts, all Three Persons act together, and while each is separate, each acts according to the principles and characters of his nature. Hard to wrap your brain around that? That’s because (you guessed it!) it’s a MYSTERY!
We are Working While Walking With Wisdom and therefore, we are Walking with Jesus(↔ Music Link) and also Walking in Sunlight (↔ Music Link). Because Wisdom is our Companion, we walk with the Lord in the Light of his Word, and are therefore ALWAYS in the Company of The Holy Trinity, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. Therefore we can believe and know that When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears. Belovéd, Wisdom is Truth and Truth is Wisdom and both are through, with, and in The Holy Trinity.
Our closing hymns are a collection of Three Trinity Hymns (↔ Music Link) We invite you to sing along!
Whatever, whenever, wherever, whoever, however, if ever, forever —
at your service, Belovéd!
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