"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind." Matthew 22:38
Someone recently said that three is a Divine number.
I was so curious about why some declare that God often reveals His will through series of three's that I studied this subject with the help of my study Bible and I was amazed at what I found.
The First and Greatest Commandment Is a Three which is found in Matthew 22:38 and gives three ways we are to love our Lord- with our heart's, soul's and mind's. Also, God is three parted. Our Father, His Son and His Spirit is His identity as the Triune Almighty God, Matthew 28:19-20 reveals by saying He is One "name" and three persons.
Further, a human is three-parted. I Thessalonians 5:23 that each human is "spirit, soul and body". Many feel that being "made in the image of God" ,Genesis 1:27, refers to this three-parted reality.
Other threes given by the Spirit of God are: What a child of God is given at the new birth, Power, Love and a Sound Mind (I Timothy 1:7); How we are to live- Always: Rejoice, Pray and Give Thanks (I Thessalonians 5:16-18; Only Three Types of people are on earth: Carnal, (Fleshly); Spiritual (Spirit controlled); Natural (unsaved); The Gospel of Salvation, I Corinthians 15:1-4, His Death, Burial and Resurrection is three-parted and no more.
There are other Three's in God's revelation key about life and understanding that reveal God's opinion that are worth our time to find in God's manual for life, The Bible.
I came away from my studies convinced that Almighty God, through inspiration, often reveals His mind through the divine number- Three.
"Help us Father God to diligently study the words of the Word and find and hold fast to the Three's You have taught Your children by means of because of Your love. In Your Son's name Amen."
Dr. Bob, AZ