Here, the doctrine of the Trinity helps me to give due consideration to the interests of all these entities. For in the Trinity, there is a basic unity of interests amid the Diverse Persons. No one Person is ever more important than the Others, nor than the Triune Divine Community as a whole. Neither is that Community more important than the distinct personalities of each of the three Persons.
Now all things in the universe are meaningless: save when regarded as creatures of the Triune Lord. States the Confession (II:2): “God hath all life, glory, goodness [and] blessedness in and of Himself; and is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creatures which He hath made, nor deriving any glory from them — but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them. He is the alone Fountain of all being
