OUR DAILY BREAD             Sunday, June 11, 1995    
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READ:  John 10:22-33

                
                BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING

               "I and My Father are one."

                             -- John 10:30   


It is said that Augustine (354-430), a leader in the
early church, was walking on the shore of the ocean 
one day and pondering the mystery of the Trinity.
He noticed a little boy playing with a seashell. 
The youngster would scoop a hole in the sand, then
go down to the waves and get his shell full of water
and pour it into the hole he had made.

Augustine walked over to the boy and asked, "What
are you doing?"  The boy replied, "I am going to
pour the sea into that hole."

"Ah," said Augustine to himself, "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 Trinity does not fit the framework of logic, 
nor can it be fully analyzed with the microscope
of our intellect.  But that's no reason to conclude
that theologians invented the idea.  To declare that 
the one and only God has made Himself known as Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit -- three distinct but not
separate persons -- is simply expressing what the
Scriptures teach (John 10:29-30; Acts 5:3-4).

Doesn't it make sense that the One we worship and to
whom we entrust our lives must be far beyond our
limited ability to understand Him?

                                -- 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.

                                -- DJD

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             THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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 The truth of a triune God staggers the mind,
     but to know Him satisfies the heart.
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THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Psalms 52-54

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