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forget Him, even destroy Him. Each of us wants to be ultimate. (Oxford Dictionary: ultimate, (a), beyond which no other exists).
To explain our dilemma, the most constant themes in the psychological literature are the evil effects of the parents upon their children and the evil effect of institutions upon adults. If parents and institutions can be faulted for one's problems, the individual is relieved of all responsibility. Jabay says he can no longer buy that, and that he has gone back to the ancient answer--his own willfulness. This is an accurate description for many of our emotional illnesses. We are not weak people as far as our wills are concerned. Our feelings may be raw, our minds may be playing strange tricks on us, and our nervous systems may be overloaded, but our wills are as strong as iron and set in the firm concrete of our egocentric lives. To this, there is but one answer--vacate your throne and yield your will and the throne irreversibly and irrevocably to its only legitimate claimant, the living God.
Although apparently signaling capitulation, a cry for divine help is inappropriate. Almost invariably, it is a disguised plea to aid us to regain the driver's seat, to reclaim the throne. That is not the prayer that God is waiting to hear. What He awaits is our word of obedient surrender. Strange though it may seem, therein there is true freedom and liberty.
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