God's evaluation of the human condition is that we are sinners, that we are

fallen, that we are the problem and we are not the solution.

It's a bit like going to your doctor and your doctor being really honest with you. I'll give you an example

from my own life. Some years ago I wasn't doing well physically. I had allergies and I was getting

bloody noses and I couldn't sleep and I had heartburn and I was just not well.

I had a nervous eye twitch because I was stressed.

Everybody in the church thought I was flirting with him.

I wasn't.

I was just a little freaked out.

And what happened then was one of my kids looked at Grace who was in the third trimester with one of our soon to be born children and looked at me and said, Daddy, are you having a baby too?

And I was like, no, I'm having an ice cream baby.

I need to make some lifestyle changes.

So I go to the doctor and the doctor says, okay,

you need a heartburn medicine, you need sleep medicine,

you need anxiety, all of these medicines.

And so then you do the terrifying thing

where you look at the potential side effects

and you're like, it's worse than what I have.

The side effects are worse than what I have.

So I go to another doctor who was kind of rude,

a bit direct, and reminded me of myself.

So now I know what you feel like.

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