Few truths about God’s behavior and feelings are as encouraging as the ones that reveal the unity of love for the believer by the Trinity. And it’s not so often that we’ll read it written in such a powerful way as in John Piper’s Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die:

Jesus did not wrestle his angry Father to the floor of heaven and take a whip out of his hand. He did not force him to be merciful to humanity. His death was not the begrudging consent of God to be lenient to sinners. No, what Jesus did when he suffered and died was the Father’s idea.

Thanks to Jesus, we are now at ease before every part of Trinity, and each independently—if that distinction is even reasonable. God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit all share the same affection for the believer.