the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 28:19. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 John 5:7.
Thank God, we are not commanded to search out or explain the mystery of the Trinity for then we should soon fail but to believe and to rest in the triune God. We know enough of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost to be saved. What we do not know would, presumably, in our present state, make us no more blessed or better, if we did know. Otherwise God, who is love, would not have hid it from us. Hence do not rack your brains in trying to comprehend the Trinity, but surrender your heart to it, and love the God whose words and deeds all bear witness that He is love, and that through all eternity He can do naught but love. How dear you must be to the Father, you poor child of man, since He has given you His Son! How dear you must be to the Son since He has given Himself for you! How dear you must be to the Holy Ghost since He so fondly instructs you, glorifies Jesus, the Savior, in your heart, renews you, and regenerates you to be a child of God and a joint heir with Christ! What good have you done since the Father and the Son will come and take up their abode in you? (John 14:23). By what have you deserved to be the temple of the Holy Ghost? (1 Corinthians 6:19). What have you given the triune God who in baptism has received you into His house and made you partaker of the rights and claims of all His children and heirs? Keep silence, and worship! Love, believe, hope and surrender yourself. The mystery is even now great enough, how will it be when you shall look down into the abyss of His grace and love?
Praised be the Lord, my God,
He who forever liveth,
To whom the heavenly host
E’er praise and honor giveth;
Praised be the Lord, our God,
In whose great name we boast,
The Father. God the Son,
And God the Holy Ghost.
