People rarely admit that they have been playing games subconsciously with God.
Are you and I playing games with God to keep our lives under our control? Since part of who God is, is perfect truth, perfect love, and perfect righteousness, would it be wise for us to put Him in His rightful place as God in our lives?
Even when you talk to them on a personal level they are so often not aware of it. Instead they will usually say one of three different views. 1.) things like they don't understand God, or 2.) they wish God would make things plainly visible to them, or 3.) they already have God.
Yet almost everyone plays a hidden subconscious game with God. God's plan works perfectly and He does not change. God will not corrupt His perfection to get things to line up with our normal. Our normal is a twisted version of reality. When we start to line up our understanding with God's reality, we start to begin to realize just how true the Word of God actually is.
What is quite interesting is, when a person is in a man made religion, they still are playing this same subconscious game with God. Most man made religions initially look like they have the truth. This is also true for Christians. The only way to know if our religion is real, is to carefully study the scriptures and prove all things.
When they crucified Jesus Christ, they were playing religious games with God. They thought they won, but in reality, they lost. These were the brightest, most educated people of the day. Today is no different. Even educated and highly educated religious people often are unaware that they are playing games with God. God knows all about it.
So how do we get out of this deception? As we get older, we realize that when we play games with God we cannot win. God always wins in the end. We would be wise to learn how God made things work and then bring our lives in line with that reality. There is only one source and that is the scriptures that our Bibles are translated from. They have proven trustworthy and we should choose to believe what they say.
That would mean we should learn how God says we are made and how we should interact with Him. Each part of us that God has made, God has a plan and a purpose on how it is to be used. Yes we have to do the work necessary to learn this in order to be an overcoming child of God. Works are not a requirement of salvation, but they do show our belief in the God of salvation.
This means we should learn the difference between thinking, believing, and knowing from God's perspective. Even educated people often get these mixed up. God has specific meanings for each of them. Also God has specific functions for the six parts of a person that are listed in the scriptures. God put that information in the Bible for us to search out and understand and make our daily decisions by faith accordingly.