God's love continually overcomes our infidelities with forgiveness. God treats us lovingly as children and finds ways to provide a future full of hope for us, disregarding our chronic inability to cooperate with His plans, let alone be His agents to propagate them throughout the world.

Like the Jewish leaders we even positively interfere with God's plans for our nation as well as ourselves, making decisions according to business and political expediency rather than divine wisdom. The results are disastrous, like the collapse of buildings, destruction of the environment, and so on. Only God's ability to write straight with crooked lines saves the day. The death of Jesus, plotted and executed by religious leaders and politicians, did in fact save the people but not politically. Jesus' death saves us all from the ultimate death, but we may, as did the Jews, have to live out the consequences of foolish secular decisions.