In the First Reading we hear of the wisdom of God at the beginning of Creation: "... and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race." (Prov 8: 30-31) What a contrast this is to the cold, impersonal deity imagined by the theists and other philosophies/religions! The Holy Trinity is an infinite, dynamic, synthesis of perfect love. This, nevertheless, still sounds somewhat impersonal. Yet, love is necessarily relational so, although our discourse on the nature of God often takes a philosophical turn, the God perfectly revealed in Christ Jesus is both omnipotent and personal, eternal and incarnated, just and merciful. We could not have known this without the revelation given us in Jesus Christ and through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Other religions and world views necessarily are constrained by the limitations of human reason which struggles to comprehend or even consider so great a mystery. Christian need to be confident that God's revelation of himself, in Jesus Christ, is reliable even if it seems incredible. To help us we have the Holy Spirit who guides us to the truth even when our intellects struggle: "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." (Jn 16: 13)
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