he has to listen with regard to himself.”8 Jesus desires faith in him on the part of those whom he addresses. They must “be willing to be told that now the time has come in which God comes forward as God.” It is God’s presence with them that they must accept and respond to in obedience. “This presence” of God with us, “connects our action with God’s action.”9 I now see that “my action as love flows from love to God (Mk 12:28–34). For I can really love God from now on, I can rejoice in him, since
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