Wesley Huff

That's the golden rule.

But if you look at other religions, it's almost always framed in the negative.

Don't do unto others what you don't want done to you.

So there's a difference between not punching someone in the face and building someone a hospital.

At the basic level and to understand how that expresses in everyday life.

So Martin Luther, the German Protestant reformer, he said the faithful Christian shoemaker doesn't glorify God by sewing little crosses into the shoes but by making really good quality shoes.

And so there's an aspect of God has endowed us, right?

We're creating God's image.

We create as an aspect of an outpouring of that which we are created to be.

And we do that well.

You know, the proverb says, whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all its might.

And the idea is, you know, you have the capability to do incredible things.

And the reason why you have that capability is because you bear the image of a creator who, like I said before, lives in a set of living, loving relationships.

And so that God actually didn't need to create you, me, anything, right?

So God is not better off or worse off if we love him or worship him or believe in him.

He really isn't.

He has existed in love forever.

in relationship.

And yet, the story of the Bible is that God chooses to create out of an outpouring of his love, knowing even that we are going to rebel against him, we are going to sin, right, do wrong against how he has actually created us to be, and still desires to have that relationship.

I mean, the answer to that is yes and no.