Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The Trinity

“The name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).

I suppose if we could understand God and the Trinity He wouldn’t be God. He is infinite and we are finite — mere mortals. The following account illustrates this fact very well.

It is said of Augustine (334-430 AD), that he was once walking along the seashore, while he was greatly perplexed about the doctrine of the trinity — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in wisdom, power, and glory, yet three in one. As he meditated, he observed a little boy with a sea shell running to the water, filling his shell and then pouring it into a hole which he had made in the sand.

“What are you doing, my boy?” asked Augustine.

“Oh!” replied the boy, “I am trying to put the ocean in this hole.”

Augustine had learned his lesson, and as he passed on, he said, “That is what I am trying to do; I see it now. Standing on the shores of time I am trying to get into this finite mind things which are infinite.”