Dark Brightness

Trinity Sunday. Message was around Jesus telling the disciples he was leaving — going to the father — and if this did not happen the spirit would not come.

For the disciples could not handle the teaching to come. It would be revealed by the spirit… after the resurrection. This is unsuprising. We are limited. We can handle but a little at a time.

Job 38:1-11; 42:1-538:1

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:2″Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?3Gird up your loins like a man,I will question you, and you shall declare to me.4″Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?Tell me, if you have understanding.5Who determined its measurements — surely you know!Or who stretched the line upon it?6On what were its bases sunk,or who laid its cornerstone7when the morning stars sang togetherand all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?8″Or who shut in the sea with doorswhen it burst out from the womb? —9when I made the clouds its garment,and thick darkness its swaddling band,10and prescribed bounds for it,and set bars and doors,11and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther,and here shall your proud waves be stopped”?

42:1Then Job answered the Lord:2″I know that you can do all things,and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.3Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.4 Hear, and I will speak;I will question you, and you declare to me.5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,but now my eye sees you;”

via PCUSA – Devotions – Daily readings for Sunday, May 30, 2010.