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January 11 - January 21, 2019
What we love and enjoy is foundationally important. It is far more significant than our outward behavior, for it is our desires that drive our behavior. We do what we want. The Father, Son and Spirit love and enjoy each other and, created in their image, we were made to love and enjoy them.
We cannot choose what we love, but always love what seems desirable to us. Thus we will only change what we love when something proves itself to be more desirable to us than what we already love. I will, then, always love sin and the world until I truly sense that Christ is better.
Oneness for the triune God means unity.
The truth is that God is already on mission: in love, the Father has sent his Son and his Spirit. It is the outworking of his very nature.
The mission comes from the overflow of love, from the uncontainable enjoyment of the fellowship.
Love for the Lord, love for neighbor—that is the heart of holiness and how the triune God’s people get to be like him.
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good” (Rom 12:9). Only such love is sincere.
God isn’t wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.[11]
In other words, the beautiful glory of the triune God is radiating, self-giving and loving.
Father he is radiant. In fact, the Son is the radiance of his Father.
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.
Through the cross we see a God who is infinitely better.
