Comments on: The Trinity: God is Love http://reed.teammueller.com/2009/08/10/the-trinity-god-is-love/ thoughts along The Way Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:15:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reed http://reed.teammueller.com/2009/08/10/the-trinity-god-is-love/comment-page-1/#comment-457 Reed Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:02:56 +0000 http://reed.teammueller.com/?p=214#comment-457 @Michael :: "It says awesome, wondrous things..." beautifully put my friend. Also loved Enormity and Smallness and Point of Insignificance as a unique way to describe the Trinity! @Michael :: “It says awesome, wondrous things…” beautifully put my friend. Also loved Enormity and Smallness and Point of Insignificance as a unique way to describe the Trinity!

]]> By: Michael http://reed.teammueller.com/2009/08/10/the-trinity-god-is-love/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Michael Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:36:17 +0000 http://reed.teammueller.com/?p=214#comment-454 There's a challenge, isn't there, in summing up an argument with "God is love." It's risky because the phrase can be minimize so easily: God is love. "Oh, that's easy," we say. "God is love. Got it." Surely God must be more, we think. We believe God is love, but at the same time... God must also be MORE than love, too, right? Maybe that's where the Trinity gives us a hint. In the same way that the triune God fully realizes a father, son and spirit who are each full and complete in their own right... perhaps the love that IS God is the best seen as the expression of all of God's will, hopes and dreams. Can we imagine that God -- the great I Am, the first cause, the unmoved mover, the ground of all being -- would say "None of these titles matter. I desire only to be known as love" ... If so, maybe we get a glimpse of how a simultaneous dance of Enormity and Smallness to the Point of Insignificance reveals how The Trinity moves in and through the world. To be Everything, to be All Powerful, and to then say that all of this serves to create, nurture, bind and revive this one little thing we call Love -- an oversold, overused, misunderstood term repeated endlessly in songs and movies and books -- it's an amazing, humbling, confusing idea. God is of course more than Love. What's amazing is that the God who is so much more chose to express himself as this one weak, fanciful, term that can so easily become meaningless. It says awesome, wondrous things about our God, about his confidence in his own plan, and about his confidence in his son to find us a way to this truth. There’s a challenge, isn’t there, in summing up an argument with “God is love.” It’s risky because the phrase can be minimize so easily: God is love. “Oh, that’s easy,” we say. “God is love. Got it.”

Surely God must be more, we think. We believe God is love, but at the same time… God must also be MORE than love, too, right?

Maybe that’s where the Trinity gives us a hint. In the same way that the triune God fully realizes a father, son and spirit who are each full and complete in their own right… perhaps the love that IS God is the best seen as the expression of all of God’s will, hopes and dreams.

Can we imagine that God — the great I Am, the first cause, the unmoved mover, the ground of all being — would say “None of these titles matter. I desire only to be known as love” … If so, maybe we get a glimpse of how a simultaneous dance of Enormity and Smallness to the Point of Insignificance reveals how The Trinity moves in and through the world.

To be Everything, to be All Powerful, and to then say that all of this serves to create, nurture, bind and revive this one little thing we call Love — an oversold, overused, misunderstood term repeated endlessly in songs and movies and books — it’s an amazing, humbling, confusing idea.

God is of course more than Love. What’s amazing is that the God who is so much more chose to express himself as this one weak, fanciful, term that can so easily become meaningless.

It says awesome, wondrous things about our God, about his confidence in his own plan, and about his confidence in his son to find us a way to this truth.

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