"The abundance of God's glory is seen in God's joy. God's joy is perceived as the outpouring of God's glory. The intratrinitarian joy evokes human responses of joy...Joy is no mere description of an aspect of divine glory. Joy is both the inward and the outward aspect of divine glory. It is the basis of God's self-communication, and the dynamic of that communication. Intratriune joy calls to humanity, and the invocation is to jubilation...Through participation in Christ's saving act, humanity enters into the glory of God, and thus eschatologically leaves the hindrances to joy: the groaning of creation and the burden of sin. This is the renewed human destiny. For Karl Barth it is expressed in terms of glory and eternity. Thus in eternity and in temporal existence, Christians are called to 'live in the determination to be the reflection and echo of God and therefore the witnesses to the divine glory that reaches over to Him, rejoicing with the God who Himself has eternal joy and Himself is eternal joy'.
~Christiaan Mostert, Geoff Thompson
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