The dilemma of the Story is this: we don’t know if we want to be rescued. We are so enamored with our small stories and we are so bound up in our addictions and our self-centeredness and take-it-for-granted unbelief that we don’t even know how to cry out for help.
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Like a woman bound to an affair from which she cannot get free, like a man so corrupted he no longer knows his own name, the human race is captive in the worst way possible—we are captives of the heart.
Their hearts are always going astray. (Hebrews 3:10)
It is not enough to merely speak of love with our words. We must show it with our lives