Rich in Love

God did not become Love, but God is Love and has always been Love. Love needs an object. The object of the Love of God in all eternity was the One, Who is called "the Son of His Love." In that remarkable passage in the Book of Proverbs, which can only refer to this One, we read how it is declared, "I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him." Prov. 8:30 In the fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John, in which the Holy Spirit portrays the Lord as the Son of God, we learn of that great eternal Love-relation between the Father and the Son. Here in the first chapter, we read that "the Word was with God," and that He is "the only begotten Son, in the bosom of the Father." John 10:1, 18
And as we listen to His own precious words as they come from His lips in His high priestly prayer, we hear Christ speak of that eternal Love He enjoyed with the Father, a Love without beginning.
"Thou lovest Me before the foundation of the world." John 17:24 What words these are Who dares to add to them or attempt to destroy that Love? One hears almost the solemn caution of old given by the Lord. "Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place where thou standest is holy." All attempts to fully describe that Love or to illustrate it must fail. What that Love was in all eternity, what Riches of Love He enjoyed in the bosom of the Father, what delight was His, no Saint has ever fully comprehended. It is enough to know that before the world was, He is "the Son of His love," in the bosom of the Father enjoying the Riches of His Love.