I Love You and This Is Hurting

In Luke 15, God spells out the reality that he's not just using the people of Israel for performance art himself. They aren't just pawns that he doesn't actually care about, but he's just acting out his power and redemptive plan on them. And in the conclusion of the book in chapter 14, we get the payoff with what was hinted in all the imagery throughout. The righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.