what it was meant to be for us. God lets our sin and idolatry have its final way with us, so that our minds become twisted and we think, believe, and do all kinds of destructive things—tearing ourselves and others down (Rom. 1:18–31). God lets us have life with the god we think will save us or save others, and it always fails. He wants us to know that no other person or thing can be God for us as he can and no other person or thing can save as he does. That’s what God did with me. He let me try being
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