{"id":702,"date":"2026-06-03T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.delightingingod.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:31:17","slug":"the-trinity-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/the-trinity-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trinity is Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Importance of the Trinity - Part 2 The Trinity Is Love\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k1UCWNIeT60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the blog, The Trinity Revealed we saw God revealing Himself as never before, as three persons in one, Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; God the Trinity is the starting point of understanding the God of the Bible.&nbsp; But have you ever asked yourself the question, what were they doing for all eternity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible is amazing in that it answers this question with clarity.&nbsp; Jesus is about to be taken from his disciples to be crucified, an agonizing death, but he has an intimate discussion with his disciples.&nbsp; In this he must help his disciples understand somethings that will turn their world upside down.&nbsp; One of these, is found in John chapter 17 verse 24 where Jesus states, \u201cFather \u2026 you loved me before the creation of the world.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a revelation.&nbsp; From this we can know that a main thing the Trinity has done for all eternity is to love one another.&nbsp; Yes, God is holy and just, God is eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, but very importantly, what defines Him most,<strong> <\/strong>is His love. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now if God was a lone god, this statement that he is loving would have no meaning.&nbsp; If we say ah, but that lone God somehow loves his creation, then his love is dependent upon creation, as love is something that is shared.&nbsp; But God cannot be dependent on anything else.&nbsp; If God is to have the attribute of love, he cannot by definition be a lone god.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From this we begin to see why Jesus\u2019 revelation about the nature of the Trinity being love is so astounding.&nbsp; It is certainly not an attribute the Greek gods had &#8211; they were dominated by jealousy, a very human attribute!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why is this eternal love attribute of the Trinity so important to us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, in the first book of the Bible it states that we are made in God\u2019s image.&nbsp; Indeed, God said, \u201cLet us make mankind in our image\u201d.&nbsp; What would be central to this image? &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, to give a clue, have you ever wondered why almost all music and poems have one subject in common?&nbsp; They are about love.&nbsp; You know the Beatles famous song, \u201cAll I need is love\u201d cries this out for all to hear.&nbsp; But why?&nbsp; Love cannot be defined from the laws of physics, yet it is central to everything we do.&nbsp; If the nature of God is love, then it is no surprise that it is something that defines our very nature as well.&nbsp; So, if we are made in God\u2019s image, we should be able to relate to God and to relate to each other with great love. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You see, love involves intimacy.&nbsp; Can you imagine an intimate God?&nbsp; Well, this is the nature of the Christian God, who, being the Trinity, desires a uniquely intimate relationship with man.&nbsp; He is not here to cheat us nor to do us harm, but to love and relate to us through an intimate relationship .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully, you can see now why Jesus\u2019 declaration about the Father loving Him before the creation of the world is so mind blowing &#8211; it will impact the way we see everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the blog, The Trinity Revealed we saw God revealing Himself as never before, as three persons in one, Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; God the Trinity is the starting point of understanding the God of the Bible.&nbsp; But have you ever asked yourself the question, what were they doing for all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}