It is said that Augustine (354-430), a leader in the early church, was walking on the ocean shore one day and pondering the mystery of the Trinity. He saw a little boy who was playing with a seashell. The youngster scooped a hole in the sand, then went down to the waves and filled his shell with water and poured it into the hole he had made.
Augustine asked, "What are you doing?" The boy replied, "I am going to pour the sea into the hole." Then Augustine thought, That is what I have been trying to do. Standing at the ocean of infinity, I have attempted to grasp it with my finite mind.
The concept of the Trinity does not fit the framework of common logic, nor can it be fully analyzed by our intellect. But this is no reason to say it is the invention of the theologians. To declare that the one and only God has made Himself known as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is simply an attempt to define what the Scriptures teach (JOHN 10:29-30; ACTS 5:3-4).
To commit our lives to this triune God is to begin to see with the eye of faith His greatness as our Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. Doesn’t it make sense that the One we worship, and to whom we entrust our lives, should be vastly greater than our limited understanding?
– DENNIS J. DE HAAN
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit –
O Thou blessed Trinity;
One in essence, yet three persons –
Thou art God, we worship Thee.
– DENNIS J. DE HAAN
READ: JOHN 10:22-23
The idea of a Triune God staggers
the mind, but to know Him
satisfies the heart.