Three

 I love  hidden object games. You know the kind. There are objects hidden within a picture and a person has to find them all in order to pass on to the next level. Some clues are available, but mostly a player just has to look until all of the objects on the list are found. 

In some ways the  Bible is like that. There are certain patterns that are found scattered throughout its pages. A person needs to have good observational skills among other things.

Think about this.

Jonah spent 3 days and 3 nights in its belly.

Jesus spent 3 days and 3 nights dead in the belly of the earth.

Jesus was “lost” for 3 days while the family caravan started for home without Him.

At the Wedding in Cana, the wine ran out after 3 days of feasting.

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - One God, three Persons.

At Jesus’ baptism, the Son was baptized, the Father spoke from Heaven, and the Spirit descended in the form of a dove.

At the Mount of Transfiguration the Son was glorified, the Father spoke, and wasn’t the Holy Spirit present in the cloud?


Are there more “threes" in the Bible?  Yes, there are. Can you find more?

Kind of cool to contemplate. God’s revelation all fits together and all points back to Him.  He is the Mystery who reveals Himself in the details. God is in all of them.  

A person has to pay attention, though. Jesus said it this way. 

Do you have eyes, and fail to see? Do you have ears, and fail to hear? And do you not remember? 

Matthew 18:8 

What got me thinking about this?  The Mysteries of the Rosary for one. Another is  that I was not paying attention to all the clues that lead to the fact that Jesus has only One body, not many. Things like that.  

It is so easy to miss the things that are right under one’s nose. May God give us ears to hear and eyes to see.