God’s way of moving toward the future is, with gentle persistence in unfailing purpose, to bring about the transformation of the human heart by speaking with human beings and living with and in them. He finds an Abraham, a Moses, a Paul—a you. It is this millennia-long process that Jesus the Son of man brings and will bring to completion. And it is the way of the prophets, who foresaw that the day would come when God’s heart is the human heart: “the law of God would be written in the heart.” That is, when what is right to God’s mind would be done as a simple matter of course, and when we would
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