Oct 3, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
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So certainty, certainty, certainty.
At least as certain as our human brains can comprehend.
Imagine being in a love relationship and thinking you must prove yourself worthy of love every day.
How exhausting and humiliating.
I love you only if you do all of these things, and I won't if you don't.
John Lennox shared the example of talking about this where when he proposed to his wife, he didn't go to her with a list of dues and say, as long as you abide by this list, then I will love you.
He loved her as he, as she was and as she would become.
Obviously, it's hard not to think about being judged all of the time and falling short, but I don't think that's God's objective.
I do think he wants you to be certain.
And like any love relationship, when you're certain, then you become more like your ubermatch.
Your ubermatch.
He said this in there.
I thought it was pretty good.
And we talk about epiphanies and mistakes and all this stuff and continue to make them.
And I guess we forever will until we can't.
But yeah, he's like, perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
The courage to risk making new mistakes.
A better path.
Pick a path.
Pick a path and go.
So certainty, certainty, certainty.
At least as certain as our human brains can comprehend.
Imagine being in a love relationship and thinking you must prove yourself worthy of love every day.
How exhausting and humiliating.
I love you only if you do all of these things, and I won't if you don't.
John Lennox shared the example of talking about this where when he proposed to his wife, he didn't go to her with a list of dues and say, as long as you abide by this list, then I will love you.
He loved her as he, as she was and as she would become.
Obviously, it's hard not to think about being judged all of the time and falling short, but I don't think that's God's objective.
I do think he wants you to be certain.
And like any love relationship, when you're certain, then you become more like your ubermatch.
Your ubermatch.
He said this in there.
I thought it was pretty good.
And we talk about epiphanies and mistakes and all this stuff and continue to make them.
And I guess we forever will until we can't.
But yeah, he's like, perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
The courage to risk making new mistakes.
A better path.
Pick a path.
Pick a path and go.
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