Chatting about: Free Will

Judy (Guest): Well here goes the first question: Though God could see what we would do before we do it, in no way does He force His will upon us.. It is as if wer were standing on an overpass to a highway and could see that two cars were going to collide but were unable to do anything to prevent it. So because of His gift of free will, He does not take it back but leaves us free to accept His will or not. Hi Ruth!

Judy (Guest): And gave them the freedom to make that decision.

Judy (Guest): Even we who know and love Him, sometimes make a decision that is not within His will. but He created us anyway, giving us repeated opportunities to return to Him.

Judy (Guest): His love for us is never ending and He will continue to love us regardless of our decisions.

Judy (Guest): We just need to be open to how God is working in our lives.

Judy (Guest): Question 2: Because God has given us free will, we are free to accept, or to live according to His will, or to reject it or to live in a manner apart from His will. Those who do tha latter will not enter Heaven.

Judy (Guest): It is not God

Judy (Guest): s will that they do not enter Heaven, but their own will that keep them out.

Judy (Guest): That is an awesome responsibility on the part of a doctor and must be very difficult to act upon. But knowing God’s will must make it easier.

Judy (Guest): Jesus’ death on the cross seemed like defeat. But His Resurrection from the dead is the promise that His good will triumph over evil.

Judy (Guest): Question 3: God has placed so many gifts before us. Gifts of beauty such as art and music; gifts of necessity such as food, clothing and shelter; gifts of pleasure such as cool breezes, babbling brooks and songs of birds. Surely thee should be more than enough to sin someone’s soul so that they freely choose Him. But still, because of freewill, some choose to follow their own path rather than His.

Judy (Guest): Surely these

Judy (Guest): Oops, to win someone’s soul, not sin someone’s soul.

Judy (Guest): At the Last Supper, Jesus said “How I have longed to eat this meal with you.“ I believe that He also longs for us to come completely into His will and to live according to it because of His love for us. All He does is out of love for us.

Judy (Guest): Last question: We profess to love God, but do we always act as people who love Him. We do often choose our own will over His. I thing general affections in prayer are statements of our simple love for God with no specifications as go degree. Particular affections in prayer are expressions or our love for God for His goodness, for His glorious creation; for the beauty in nature, for the wonders of the human body, the list could go on and on.

Judy (Guest): As to degree.

Judy (Guest): We need to imagine the heart of God as an enormous vessel that is opening ever wider and wider to accept us and to pour out His gifts upon us.

Judy (Guest): Yes, if we rely on ourselves we will surely run out of steam. Our energy must come from God or it will die out.

Judy (Guest): Jesus told us that He is the way, the truth and the life. We must walk in His way, know and understand His truth, and live His life to the full.

Judy (Guest): So many people are hungry for something and do not know what. That something is God. He can satisfy every hunger of ours. And He will if we abandon ourselves to Him.

Judy (Guest): I read the letter and I think that that is where the motto “Ask nothing, refuse nothing.“ comes from.

Judy (Guest): Let us abandon ourselves to the Lord and allow Him to take us over so that in all circunstances His will will be our will. Have a blessed week and a restful holiday tomorrow.