Divine Abdication - C S Lewis

For He seems to do nothing of Himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what He could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye.

He allows us to neglect what He would have us do, or to fail.

Perhaps we do not fully realize the problem, so to call it, of enabling finite free wills to co-exist with Omnipotence.

It seems to involve at every moment almost a sort of divine abdication.

We are not mere recipients or spectators.

We are either privileged to share the game or compelled to collaborate in the work, 'to wield our little tridents.'

Is this amazing process simply Creation going on before our eyes?

This is how (no light matter) God makes something --indeed makes gods -- out of nothing.

  - From "The Efficacy of Prayer," in The World's Last Night.