Trinity Sunday AD 2026

Nicodemus came to Jesus at night and spoke to Him with great respect. Yet he saw Him as nothing more than a teacher, a rabbi. Nicodemus recognized that God was with Jesus, but he could not believe that Jesus Himself was God made flesh.

There have always been people who view Jesus in much the same way. They admire Him as a great moral teacher, a prophet, or even a social reformer (though that was never His mission). They are willing to place Him among the greatest figures in human history, perhaps even above most of them. But in the end, they see Him as only a man.

What is more striking is that even those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God can sometimes think like Nicodemus without realizing it. When Jesus told him that no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born again, Nicodemus understood His words in a purely earthly sense: “How can a man be born when he is old?” But Jesus was speaking about something far greater—a new birth through water and the Holy Spirit, given in Baptism.

And yet many who call themselves Christians struggle to believe this. For them, Baptism is merely a symbol, an outward sign of something that has already happened. The same is often true of the Holy Communion. They see only bread and wine, not the gift Christ Himself gives through them.

Jesus is true God and true man, and His words are always trustworthy. When He speaks of being born again through water and the Spirit, He means exactly that. And when He tells us that the Holy Communion is His Body and Blood, given for the life of the world, we can take Him at His word.

This is where our hope is found. The Christian faith is not built on symbols alone or on human ideas about God. It rests on what God has done for us in Christ. The Most Holy Trinity has left nothing undone for our salvation. He has saved us from the tyranny of sin, evil, and death to bring us into His everlasting Kingdom.