Sunday’s Blessing – 05/31/2026 – Holy Trinity Sunday – More of the “Ordinary” Ministry of the Holy Spirit

Sunday’s Blessing – 05/31/2026 – Holy Trinity Sunday – More of the “Ordinary” Ministry of the Holy Spirit

Last year I posted a brief explanation or what Ordinary Time means in the liturgical calendar (Sunday’s Blessing – 07/13/2025 – Ordinary Time). If you missed it, you can find it on the blog for some background. Now that Easter is officially over, we enter back into Ordinary Time. Today is the ninth week of Ordinary Time, also called The Holy Trinity Sunday. Now that the Holy Spirit has been formally introduced to mankind at Pentecost, we have now experienced each member of the Trinity. Even though the Holy Spirit was at work in the lives of humans from the beginning (even Creation) those prior to Pentecost simply attributed His influence as “the Spirit of God would come on them.”

The first biblical mention of the “Holy Spirit” is found in Psalm 51:11:

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:10-12 (ESV)

It’s no surprise to me that this would come from David, a man after God’s own heart. I’m not sure if David was aware of all three aspects of the Holy Trinity, but He knew God’s spirit would be holy. Gensis 1:2 mentions, “the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” However, if it was common knowledge there was a Holy Trinity I’m not sure Jesus would have taken time to prepare His followers for the arrival of the Holy Spirit. As has been mentioned in earlier posts, Jesus told them, “When He ascended back to the Father, ‘another comforter just like me’ would be sent to them.” Jesus continued just before He ascended, saying:

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Acts 1:8 (ESV) 

Even if the followers of Jesus did not understand it all, they were at least told the Holy Spirit was coming and what purpose He would serve. His primary purpose would to baptize us into Christ and empower us to be witnesses of God in the earth by telling everyone about the work Jesus completed to provide for our salvation and demonstrate the nature of the Father though our lives.

One of my top posts on this blog has been, and continues to be, “Weapons for the Believer 5.1 – The Gifts of the Holy Spirit - Faith” from May 29, 2016. It has over twenty-six thousand views. I believe this speaks to the hunger we have for something real. Faith is the most real thing we can ever find in God. By discovering the Holy Spirit has already been sent, and by acknowledging His indwelling presence in the Believer, He will bring us into the truth of all God has prepared for us.

Today’s Blessing:

May you know the salvation provided through Jesus

May you experience being overwhelmed (baptism) into Christ

May you know all that the Father has prepared for your complete life

And may you be willing to share that experience with others

May this life become “ordinary” for you

Not trivial or trite

But the life that you choose to live every day

Not something you have to strive for