"Jesus’s longing and goal is that we see his glory and then that we be able to love what we see with the same love that the Father has for the Son. And he doesn’t mean that we merely imitate the love of the Father for the Son. He means the Father’s very love becomes our love for the Son—that we love the Son with the love of the Father for the Son. This is what the Spirit becomes and bestows in our lives: Love for the Son by the Father through the Spirit." - John Piper, Good News of Great Joy
John 17:26
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Jesus prayed everyone would come to love Him as the Father already did. This is accomplished through the Spirit by the Father for the Son. The Trinity conspires to provide, procure, and produce for us and in us the end to which we were created: to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
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