example, by not calling on angels to deliver him from his most painful hour. Was Jesus saying to us that it is not good for God to intervene in our world on a day-to-day basis? The important thing, the kingdom of heaven—isn’t that a kingdom of the spirit to be worked out inside hearts and minds, not by an external, spectacular display of God’s power? At the least, Jesus declined to make radical changes in the natural laws governing the planet. Rather than, say, rewiring the nervous system to make some