I think what I'd like to do as we start to talk about this John I I wonder whether or not some of the things that you've shared are new thoughts and I wonder whether the place to begin to discuss what you've talked about is the issue of what motivates God.

Because I wonder whether or not many of us need to be reintroduced to the God of the Bible, having believed

that what motivates God ultimately is our well-being as we perceive it to be. But I think you already alluded to something quite different

than that.

Yeah, as we perceive it to be is the problem with saying it that way. The thing that I have, the thing that I have

been devoting the last 30 or 35 years to understanding, I hope, is that two things that are plain in the Bible

and one of them plain in my soul are not at odds.

One is God manifestly throughout the Bible is driven

by the impulse to display his own glory.

Ephesions 1-6 is where I camped tonight but it's all over the Bible. Lead us not into temptation

deliver us from evil yours is the kingdom the and the glory. But back in Psalm 23, just to pick a random

text, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, and it makes me lie down in green pastures,

he leaves him beside still waters. He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths of righteousness. Say the next phrase.

Really? You see, those are all over the Bible.

He leads me in paths of righteousness for his namesake.

He does that.

Or the heavens are telling the glory of God.

How did that get set up?

Who's set up the heavens that way?

God did.

So God is totally into God.

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