Humanic...

The roots of the kingdom are in God's divinity. It is because God is God that the kingdom is even possible. Without the reality of the God who is wholly other than us, all we've got is us. And 'us' has not been good news for planet earth so far… The Godness of God is our hope. But the fruits of the kingdom - the aims and the goals and the projects and the possibilities - are not in God's divinity but in our humanity. The coming of the kingdom doesn't change God - it changes us. Everything about what God wants to do is about what God wants to do in and through us…. The kingdom of God is a human kingdom in the sense that a tree that grows apples is an apple tree and a studio that makes films is a film studio. We are the product; the fruit; the result; the work in progress. When God declares a vernissage for his Kingdom exhibition, we are on display: in all the battered beauty of redeemed humanity. Forging love and justice from the raw materials of frail humanity is what God does. God is humanic - obsessively in love with people. We've been told for years that God is mad with us. It's about time we understood that God is mad about us….