Calvin got introduced into this discussion some time back. For what reason I can only surmise, but I would guess it has more to do with "whose water are you carrying" than anything else. "Tell me whose water you are carrying and I will tailor my response to you accordingly" seemed pretty much the way of it.
As I recall Hummer (whom I have never seen treat anyone with less than an almost painful respect...suffering to an almost exasperation) both saw it, and saw through it. I know others did too, just preferred not to comment upon it. Probably (in my estimation) seeing it was being handled.
Call this a theological prescription or not, call it whatever one cares to, it matters not. Those that know it, live in it, those that don't...simply don't...yet. But I am also quite convinced none of does not find the extreme of benefit of reminder to it, if even we have let it slip in our consciousness. There's not a one of us who need "try and be transparent". We just are. Trying to hide transparency by "trying to be" is as silly an effort as trying to be like Christ to the convincing of others.
(Does one need that equation explained?) That folly?
But, why would any of us need to be reminded of its truth...and benefit? Probably because none of us like to be seen through...generally it's not pleasant to have one's motives exposed to a greater degree than one understands them themselves. To have it made so plain that a man does not even know himself to the measure he imagines he does. And...made too plain...that if a man does not even know himself very well, (if at all) everything else is so skewed and screwed up according to that misinformation as to be mostly...spuriously spewed data.
Do you hear spirits?
Do you know what answer doesn't matter at all to that question?
Any.
Do you know God?
Ditto.
Yet...even as God needs no one to explain either Himself nor His motives, unless one has been carried away to dumb idols thinking it (them) is/are God, there's gonna be a whole lot of "why do you gotta be that way?" veiled in as much dumbness a man can muster to hide his own self...from himself. Serving a dumb idol.
No doubt we all like to assume we know what love "feels like".
Till someone we think we love comes along and we offer our best effort to let them know we do...and they respond..."get thee behind me Satan"
Do you hear spirits?
When I told Sweetie, who may know me better than I know myself, what you had said of me, she suggest that I should respond that she was ROFL..."what's that?" ... "rolling on floor laughing".
Although it is sorely tempting to sit back and enjoy the complementary things you have said about me; because of my superior perspective (being closer to the subject), it would be less that honest of me not to set the record straight.
If I see God in everything (animate or inanimate, simple or elaborate, voluntary or involuntary, natural or supernatural, temporal or eternal), it is not me that sees, but God that reveals to me. Therefore, I do not then respect any thing but God who has revealed for His Purpose and Glory. Neither have I created this perspective; to the degree that I have it, it has been graciously given, nor do I suggest that all things are made easy by this way; I'm saying that nothing is possible by any other way.