Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith

by Michael Reeves

Yet Christianity is not primarily about lifestyle change; it is about knowing God.

Bach’s young contemporary, Jonathan Edwards, was an ardent lover of music. One of his favorite words was harmony. Declaring that the Father, Son and Spirit constitute “the supreme harmony of all,” he believed, like Bach, that when we sing together in harmony (as he often did with his family) we do something that reflects God’s own beauty.

Made in the image of the God of love, Augustine argued that we are always motivated by love—and that is why Adam and Eve disobeyed God. They sinned because they loved something else more than him.

Knowing that the Bible is about him and not me means that, instead of reading the Bible obsessing about me, I can gaze on him.

Oneness for the triune God means unity.

It all depends on what “the glory of God” means. In the Old Testament, the word for “glory” has to do with “heaviness” or “weight.”

So the glory of something is its mass, its bulk, its worth, what makes it up, what it is all about—indeed, what makes it itself.

Astonishingly, the moment when Jesus finally reaches the deepest point of his humiliation, at the cross, is the moment when he is glorified and most clearly seen for who he is. On the cross we see the glorification of the glory of God, the deepest revelation of the very heart of God—and it is all about laying down his own life to give life, to bear fruit.