“Imagine if I wasn’t a Christian!”—to live with this being the rest of my life and no hope of a perfected creation to follow. ‘YOLO’ is a big disappointment when you’re in my body. Imagine if all I had was this life, with no hope of being free of mourning and tears and pain!
While the album leaves the question of Cave’s personal faith ultimately unanswered (perhaps deliberately so), nevertheless Wild God makes clear Cave has landed somewhere many might not have expected: Cave is filled with joy.
God is love. He loves us perfectly. When we have something to tell him, he gives us his undivided attention. No worry or joy is too small to share with him—he will never dismiss us.
Keller thought a strength of Protestantism is its willingness to innovate but a weakness its unwillingness to cooperate. But he knew from history that innovations were sustained only when they became institutions.
Because Romans 8:28 exists, those who love God and are loved by him can have confidence that he is working through all of life’s circumstances to bring good out of bad, light out of darkness, joy out of sorrow.
