To us it looks like becoming a "mere extra" as you so well describe it here! To God, we engage in the True humility it takes to follow God's will. Then it becomes God, able to speak/act/work through you (us) without us messing up God's expertise with our amateurish insertions. Our weakness is then turned into strength, backed with Eternal Wisdom. If we follow Him, that's what we really want, if we could only see past our noses. We struggle to learn to submit to Him, our all.