Isaiah 42:1
¹ “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
My Elect One in whom My soul delights!
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. 

In contrast to the silly pantheistic idea that "love is God," the Bible declares in a profound mystery that "God is love" (1 John 4:8).   In the vital Heart, Center and Life Source of all the universe, there is relationship, intimacy, and delight.  The Father loves the Son, delights in the Son, is and well-pleased with the Son (John 3:35, 5:20; Matthew 3:17, 17:5).  The Son loves and honors the Father, and does only what He sees the Father doing (John 5:19, 8:49).  The Spirit glorifies and testifies of the Son (John 15:26, 16:14). 

All Three Persons are One God, and yet they know, speak to, and enjoy Each Other.  The Bible even records conversations in which the Father and Son spoke to One Another, both before and after the Incarnation (Psalm 2:7-9; Psalm 110:1,4; Mark 1:11, 9:7; John 12:28)

So what does this have to do with us?

Simply this: We have been invited in.

We have been invited In in a sense that makes the most elite, conspiratorial inner ring of human power brokers seem as attractive as a gathering of maggots in a rotting corpse.  We have been invited to share in the heroic fellowship, the glorious intimacy, the holy adventure of the ultimate Inner Circle.

John 15:9-10
⁹ “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

John 17:23
²³ I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

If you belong to Jesus, then Jesus loves you the way that His Father loves Him!  And the Father also loves you the way that He loves Jesus.

John 17:25-26
²⁵ O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. ²⁶ And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

Through the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, you and I are going to love Jesus the way that His Father loves Him!