We know what it means, in the words of Micah, to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with God. To say that we do not know the will of God is a lie. We understand that our task is to make our will one with the will of God and to enact God's will in the world. From the mystics, I have learned that our love for God is as important as God's love for us. It is not enough for our church leaders to tell us God loves us, God wants us, God protects us, God will heal us.
Love is always mutual.
When one is always the giver and the other always the recipient, there can be no mature love. This is our task. In terms of our faith, it means to become an adult and no longer to be trapped in a childish relationship with God that is not life-giving. In a world that idolizes the stock market, economic prosperity, and power, the God of power-sharing, of love, of relationship is nothing. Only with our partnership can that love become incarnate in our world every day.