False gods are so easy to work with because they’re, well, false. When humans worship the inventions of their own minds, it’s like inventing a fantasy lover or a fantasy friend—it’s so phony that it’s stupid, but our egos still get hooked. Try and get a real human to behave like your fantasy friend does and it’s not going to happen. Real humans have independent wills and they aren’t going to do whatever you want just because you want it. Real Gods are even more challenging to work with because not only are They not going to be controlled by you, They’re also not going to please you by acting like humans. Yahweh, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are not human beings. They don’t communicate like humans, They don’t think like humans, and They don’t pander to humans. So when you transition from false gods to real Gods, you suddenly find yourself losing all of that nice control you had before.

The real Gods won’t take orders from you. They aren’t going to speak at your command, and They certainly aren’t going to pop in every day with some cute little serving of divination. The real Gods say that future knowledge isn’t good for humans. It tends to bring out the worst in us and it causes us to lose sight of what our priorities should be. So the real Gods are very tightlipped about telling you what shape your day is going to take. They prefer to have you go into the future blind and vulnerable and realizing that you’re totally dependent on Them to take care of you. In a relationship with the real Gods, you are reduced to a helpless child who clings to his daddy’s leg and worries about whether or not his daddy can really handle the current crisis.