In Second Corinthians 13:14 we are told about “the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.”

What a blessing it was this morning when I opened one of my devotional treasuries and read how a pastor is illustrating the doctrine of the Trinity when speaking to young people.

He used the shamrock plant. Those who have seen the plant know that it is but one leaf but it has three distinct sections. Drawing a clover plant on the blackboard, he asks the teenagers, “How many leaves has the plant?” “Three,” most of the listeners answer. But there are some who say, “One.” But most of them yell now, “There are three.”

Then the pastor asks, “How many times do you have to pick, to get hold of the plant?” The answer is, “Once”. He asks once more, “How many leaves?” “One leaf,” comes the reluctant answer from a few students, but others are convinced that there are three.

Eventually one of the young people says, “Three are there in one.”

The word “Trinity” is not mentioned in the Bible.

But the Scriptures teach that there is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

“He who would try to understand the Trinity fully will lose his mind. But he who would deny the Trinity will lose his soul.” – Lindsell and Woodbridge

AT THE BEACH

That you can make the Bible say anything, I remember a teacher saying while attending Bible school.

How do you do that?

You just open up your Bible and pick out some verses. You quote the picked verses out of context and you can construct anything you want.

I looked up The Collins Concise Dictionary and there it says that “CONTEXT” are “the parts of a piece of writing, speech, etc., that precede and follow a word or passage and contribute to its full meaning.”

Just a question here: Have you ever wondered about Devotional Treasuries, where the author picks out one verse and expounds it? At the present time I am reading a Devotional Treasury by C. H. Spurgeon. I have more of course and one is written by Billy Graham.

It shows us how important it is not only to read whole books of the Bible, but all 66 books of the Bible and to read the Bible from cover to cover.