For God to be in the driver’s seat means that he sets the conditions and standards of our relationship with him. Because he is in control, we don’t get to tokenize him. “Rather than taking him for granted, as we do with impersonal things and forces, we must always take his concerns into account, responding to him in repentance, love, thanksgiving, worship.” Of course, the problem is that we do not always take God’s concerns into account. We do not always respond to him in repentance, love, thanksgiving, and worship. We regularly take God for granted through unbelief and willful ignoring of his
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