when the ideal is not met, God still enters in and loves us. And it is when we seek to live the ideals of God, to care about the things he cares deeply about, that we meet him. Goldingay calls this a “theology of ideal and condescension.”17 Simultaneously, God has ideals that he expects of and desires for us, and God knows we cannot meet them and so he seeks to meet us in the moments that we try to keep his ideals, even imperfectly.
