Who we are to one another is who god becomes to us

​"We only trust God to the degree we've been able to trust another human being in some way, shape or form here on earth."

Maybe some of you read that and took exception to it. I did when I first heard it. It felt like it was reducing our relationship to God to our relationship to one another.

Then I remembered, long before I reduced it to that, God reduced it to that.

It was God who came to earth, fully human, to demonstrate just how fully another human can be trusted. It was God the human who said, the promises I'm making you about your life here and beyond can be trusted. I'll endure one of the more horrific deaths a human can be asked to endure just to prove that to you.

It was God who said what we do unto one another, we have done unto him.

It was God who got down in the dirt and crafted the first of us, but then left the rest of human creation up to our interpersonal relationships with one another.

Maybe God didn't actually reduce our relationship with him to our relationships with one another. Maybe God was actually elevating our relationships with one another to our relationship with him.

I've heard it said often that for some people, we are the only bible they will ever read. I think I would personally be a little more specific about that. I'd say for some people, the only relationship they will ever have with God will look like the one they've had with me or you.

Because be mindful, God's ONLY objective in inspiring the written word of the bible is to bring us all into a loving relationship with him.

I think sometimes we want to minimize the role our relationships with one another play in that. I think sometimes we want to put our relationships with one another in one box, while putting our relationship with God in another box.

I think one day we'll discover God intended us to all be in one box.

I think one day we'll discover God wanted us humans to find some very God-like ways to prove to one another that - you can trust me