But idolatry always backfires. In the attempt to become more than human, to be godlike, we become less human, nonhuman: “Those who make [idols] and all who trust them shall become like them” (Psalm 135:18, NRSV). You’d think we would learn. As we cultivate a relationship with God, we need to be wary of god-fantasies so we don’t end up less human, less personal, less relational, less than who we were created to be. I want to grow up fully human. I want to be as human as Jesus was human. I want to live the Jesus Way, robustly human. And I want to do it with you.
