Let Go and Let God... No Thanks.

I took this picture several months ago while driving on a local highway. Upon seeing this, I felt an overwhelming need to turn around and snap some photos of this seemingly pointless church sign.

After googling this phrase, I was surprised to see it is common among the religious. The ultimate meaning is this: we should let go and allow god to shape and mold us, as well as our lives.

What ever happened to the idea of free will? Why should anyone feel the need to turn their lives over to god, and in some cases, rely on godly miracles to fix worldly problems. Why do people credit god with common place occurrences? Here is a brief quote from the link above:

You see, the Lord never helps one person when He can help more. I've had the wonderful blessing of being able to earn a living doing what I love, but my husband has not. He's been stuck in a dead end job that he hated and that wore on his health. The Lord took the last four years to teach me principles that would build up my business to a point where it could support our family. Then he delivered my husband from his miserable job-- a job he would have been to responsible to have quit on his own - and set him on a path for doing what he really enjoys doing. In the process the Lord lined up a series of financial solutions to move our mountain of debt until it is no longer a burden upon our back or an obstruction to our progression.

I'm assuming her husband lost his job, hardly an act of god. As for god removing their financial burden, did he call the creditors and order them to clear her debt? Perhaps god gave them the winning lottery numbers... Why do certain people feel the need to credit anything good in there life as a work of god? We are responsible for our lives and what becomes of them, not some daddy figure observing us from a cloud.

I would rather handle my own problems rather than placing them in the hands of a fictional character.