From Chapter Three, Why You Don't Have to "Let God Take Control": Or, How Obedience Is for Responsible Adults.
We're supposed to give control to God, which mean we're the ones who are in control to start with. That means it's ultimately up to us -- God has no control unless we give it to him. It's often put this way: God can't work in your life unless you let him. This is an astonishing piece of fantasy. Where in the Bible or anywhere else in God's creation did people get the idea that God was so helpless? If God can't do anything unless we let him, then God is not really God, and indeed he is less real than any person we know. After all, you don't have to "let" real people work in your life. They have an effect on you whether you like it or not, precisely because they're real. Of course, working with them (cooperating or obeying) is different from working against them (fighting or rebelling). But they have an effect on your life one way or another, because real people do stuff that affects you whether you let them or not.
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