Wisdom at the Gates Trinity Creation and the Cry of the Displaced

Today is the beginning of Refugee Week and Trinity Sunday. 

With all the unrest about immigrants and their place in various locations, it is a timely reminder to pray for those in our community who are displaced, undocumented and do not belong where they are.

In recent years, refugees and assylum seekers have been demonised and labelled as criminals who are breaking the law. A refugee or assylum seeker is not a migrant. A migrant is someone who is actively choosing to be here and have a process they can follow. Refugees and assylum seekers are those who are displaced from where they want to be and we should have empathy for them.

One way for us to gain empathy is to think about the fact that we are spiritual refugees from heaven. We have been displaced from where God created us to be. We are in a form of creation that God did not intend. God intended us to walk with Him and be cared by Him. Yet, we chose to live in a way that showed God we can do things in our own strength and power. We chose to live by our own wisdom instead of Gods and now we find ourselves where we are today - women giving birth in pain, men living by the sweat of their brow and all people being subject to decay, disease and death.

The Holy Spirit remains with us to help us accept the gospel of Jesus Christ and the will of the Father. The Holy Spirit guides and helps us to be bound the body of Christ as we move forward in our mission. 

Refugees of the world usually remain displaced from their country of origin. With the help of the eternal refugee in the Holy Spirit, we will be brought home to be with the father on the that Jesus comes back to bring all of creation back into the Father's glory.