Be responsible for your people; don't be responsible for your people / 3

How many persons are there in God?
There are three persons in the one true and living God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are the same in substance, equal in power and glory. (2 Corinthians 13:14) (from here)


Father God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, this world you made is old, but you are older yet. This world is real, it's not of our imagining, but it did not think itself up or create itself out of nothing - you designed and wrought it. You are the Reality at bottom of all this. There are things we have and things we instinctively look to that seem self-evident to us, and that is because of you, who are One Triune God. We are each unique and uniquely precious, and we each have a part to play, if we are male or female, child or adult, married or single, and according to our talents and circumstances. All this because you are Three. And yet we do not each play a solitary, discordant part. We turn to the people around us, we love them, we each contribute what we can, working and playing together in one accord. All this because you are One.

Thank you and praise you, Mighty God. Forgive me for when I take your Nature for granted, as if it were an unremarkable thing. Without you, we would never have imagined such a God - we would have one, or we would have many. Help me to love and worship you as you are, the One God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Help me to help my people do the same, and to delight in the love and unity-in-diversity we know because of who you are. Thank you for the reassurance that you are not only in favour of human community and uniqueness to the service of all, to a common end - it is the truest expression of who we are, under you. Help me to play my part in my work and marriage, and help me to encourage and equip my women to play their part too, with great joy, satisfaction, and affection, ever wondering at you, ever bowing before you, ever resting in your care.