The Kingdom of Love and the Mystery of the Trinity

I think one of the greatest mysteries about God is His Triune nature.

How can God be one, and three at the same time?

This idea has baffled theologians and saints alike for not just centuries, but millennia. People have tried to equate air, water and ice to triunity, which of course is a flawed analogy. Other analogies have been made, but really nothing comes close. There’s nothing in creation that can fully describe the Creator.

But of course, we see clues to the Great Mystery in our lives and in His creation as well.

I had a revelation many months back, but really took till today to put it to paper. I really think a lot, mostly on the bus rides, which explains why most of my thoughts never get to paper. But this one is a good revelation, hence I’m reminded of it, and this time, reminded to write of it.

Let me connect some dots:

The Kingdom of Heaven is a Kingdom of Love

The Kingdom of Heaven is not like our earthly kingdom. On Earth, one extra person around means less resources for all; because of scarcity, we are led to believe in the survival of the fittest.

Yet the Kingdom of Heaven is made richer because one more person lives there. It’s like a husband and wife choosing to have children. “Yes, you and I are enough. But if we have a child, there is one more person in the family to love.”
Though joy existed in the family, but joy was made fuller because of the child.

Now with not only the wife to love, now the husband has his child to love.

And his wife, vice versa

At the risk of making this too technical, let me put this in Math form:

Husband to Wife = 1 connection of love.

After Child,

Husband to Wife, Husband to Child, Wife to Child = 3 connections of love.

You see, the family was made 3 times richer because the child was born.

Now, input a huge figure into that equation like: 100 people and do your math. Can you see the staggering amount of love in Heaven!?!?

I see the kingdom of Heaven not as being made up of individuals, but the Kingdom of Heaven is made up of these so called ‘connections of love.’

You see, Heaven is made richer because of you. It is made richer the more people enter into the Kingdom.
Unlike Earth where more people in one place means less for all, in Heaven, more people means more for all!

“I” don’t exist in Heaven.

Heaven is not made of many “I”s. It is made up of “Yous”. If you really think about it, perfect love comes when your life is fully focused outwards and upwards. When your heart only seeks to look to God and the interest of others, it’s when love in you is perfected.

“I” cannot exist in Heaven. “I” exists in Hell.

It’s humbling to know that every selfish thought in us shall be banished in the presence of God, and the fruit of every selfish act be burned up in the fiery purity of His Holiness.

Nothing you do on Earth that is selfish will make it into the Heavenly gates. All your acts and deeds done in self-preservation will never bear fruit or count for anything in eternity.

Let me confirm that with a verse:

“For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.” – 1 Corinthians 3:11-15

For some the fire will burn big, some burn small; but its comforting to know that, still the good Christian himself will make into His everlasting presence.

And with that as a foundational thought, here’s a revelation of the Triune nature of God.

God IS Love.

Above all, God exhibits the truest nature of his Kingdom of Heaven.

In fact, God IS the love relationship of the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit!.

God is a relationship!

This, to me, is a staggering Truth!

This means that the Father cannot exist apart from the Son, and the Son cannot exist apart from the Father!

As the Son looks up to the Father in perfect love through the Spirit, so the Father looks down lovingly unto the Son.

John 10:30 says simply, I and My Father are one.

Having said all that, it answers many mysteries for me:

- Because God is the love relationship between Father and Son (through the Spirit of love), He exists in Himself. He is perfect in Himself and does not need another human being or angel to exist.

- Like the Husband and Wife analogy, His joy is made fuller when YOU are in the Kingdom!

- Love is the deepest reality of the Kingdom. If you want to become like God, stop trying to think of how you can, and start being. When God made you in His image, He made you such that you become fully alive, fully yourself when you are focused upwards to God, and outward to others, never self-wards.

Beneath all that sin and selfishness, deep within you lies the nature of Him who loves perfectly.

The more you think “How can I become like God?”, the less you are becoming like Him. The more you love, you the more you become who you truly are, and more like Him.

So in summary,

Love. It’s the only thing that matters.

Haha, okay that was like trying to prove 1+1=2.

But now that you know why 1+1 =2, you’ll appreciate it all the more.

Good night!