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I'm Jensen Holt McNair. Let go and let God. It's in God's hands now.

God's got this. These culturally Christian phrases all essentially lean on the same understanding of God and our relationship with him.

God is in control and we are not.

God is all powerful, we are not. God is all-powerful. We are not. God can make anything happen. We cannot. We can

scramble and worry and try to make things go our way, but at the end of the day, God's more equipped, more wise,

and better suited to fix the world's problems than we are.

And like most of these little sayings that we like to use, they're based on true facts about God and about humanity.

God is more powerful, wise, equipped, and capable than we are. At the end of the day, God's plan for our lives

and this world is better than our own. He is king. We are not. That is good theological, biblical truth. But with all good things, we can

misunderstand, misapply, misinterpre what these truths mean for our daily lives.

And I think that oftentimes, not always, but often, when people use these phrases, it can lull them into a sense of inaction.

Now what do I mean by that?

Well, I think that these phrases of letting go and letting God, of saying it's in God's hands now or God's got this can very quickly if we aren't

careful lead us to sit back to wait for a miracle to expect God to fix the problem, to step in.

Now there's a psychological phenomenon called the bystander effect.

You may have heard of it, but it essentially says that people are less likely to help out someone in need if there are other people around.

In fact, the more people around, the less likely someone is to help.

Now this leads to some really terrible things happening.

People being mugged, attacked, or worse, all wall bystanders stand by the wayside. Wouldn't any decent human take action, step in, stop the attack?

Not always. And it's because of the psychology behind the bystander effect.

Essentially when there are more people, the weight of responsibility doesn't feel as heavy to any

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