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The Great Challenge of the Spiritual Life Is Learning to Give Up the Illusion of Control
"Genuine spiritual formation brings about a fundamental shift from being our own production to being God's creation," he says. "The great challenge of the spiritual life is learning to give up the illusion of control, which is another way of saying, learning to trust in Jesus." The Bible forces us to confront all the ways that we have been attempting to control, John writes. 'As long as we read the Bible this way from this posture, we will remain trapped in the self-perpetuating prison of egocentric control'