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Ecc 3:1, Prov 16:9, Free Will, the myth
Ninny:
Let me give you a little of my feelings on this subject as everyone has given scripture already.
We know that God KNOWS everything from beginning to end what we will do how we will react to certain things. BUT WE DON'T know how anything will turn out. We are subject to God's will and when we let Him take the reigns of control in our life instead of thinking we have some sort of free will to carve out our own destiny, then we are at a place of enlightenment. When we pull against God to have free will in the matters of life we are only making our course longer and more difficult. You've heard the saying "you get enough rope to hang yourself". I feel like God gives us enough rope to hang ourselves! When we are sufficiently strangled on trying to make our own way then we are at the place where God can finish His work in us. I kind of think that's how He is seen to DRAG us to Him! He gets us by that rope we have hung ourselves with and pulls us in--like a tow line.
This may be way off base here, but God you remember is full of grace and mercy, He is longsuffering toward us. He will drag us all the way if He has to in order to save us! God is so loving as a Father that He just isn't willing for us to be lost. Even the lost among us will one day be saved, don't belabor the things you don't understand because God has put the desire in you to learn His will HE will give you answers, but first you have to stop! Remember the scripture says: "Be still and know that I am God"
Think about what that verse means.
That's how I see it!
Kathy :D
aqrinc:
Well written Kathy. :)
george. ;D
--- Quote from: Ninny on February 02, 2009, 03:40:49 PM ---Let me give you a little of my feelings on this subject as everyone has given scripture already.
We know that God KNOWS everything from beginning to end what we will do how we will react to certain things. BUT WE DON'T know how anything will turn out. We are subject to God's will and when we let Him take the reigns of control in our life instead of thinking we have some sort of free will to carve out our own destiny, then we are at a place of enlightenment. When we pull against God to have free will in the matters of life we are only making our course longer and more difficult. You've heard the saying "you get enough rope to hang yourself". I feel like God gives us enough rope to hang ourselves! When we are sufficiently strangled on trying to make our own way then we are at the place where God can finish His work in us. I kind of think that's how He is seen to DRAG us to Him! He gets us by that rope we have hung ourselves with and pulls us in--like a tow line.
This may be way off base here, but God you remember is full of grace and mercy, He is longsuffering toward us. He will drag us all the way if He has to in order to save us! God is so loving as a Father that He just isn't willing for us to be lost. Even the lost among us will one day be saved, don't belabor the things you don't understand because God has put the desire in you to learn His will HE will give you answers, but first you have to stop! Remember the scripture says: "Be still and know that I am God"
Think about what that verse means.
That's how I see it!
Kathy :D
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Heidi:
Rob....God says that His Word will not return void...keep studying His Word and He will reveal Himself to you if you seek Him diligently and not give up.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Hebrews11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
Heidi
PS Kathy, thanks for the beautiful reminder...."Be still and know that I am God"....I need to apply this in my life a lot more than what I am currently doing.
Ninny:
Heidi,
It is so funny to me that when I am reading some threads and I Reply to them something happens. I look over it after it posts and see that God is really having me write things down that he is telling ME!! :o
We just forge ahead so much in life with our busy schedules and our day to day concerns that occasionally
God has to tell us: STOP!!! Not just "okay now, stop and smell the roses here" No it is STOP!
"Relax and know that I am Elohim; I shall be exalted among the nations; I shall be exalted in the earth."
(Psa 46:10)CLV POWERFUL!
Kathy :D
Heidi:
--- Quote from: Ninny on February 03, 2009, 07:44:02 AM ---"Relax and know that I am Elohim; I shall be exalted among the nations; I shall be exalted in the earth."
(Psa 46:10)CLV POWERFUL!
--- End quote ---
POWERFUL INDEED......I could not help but be covered in gooseflesh when reading Ps 46:10
Heidi
PS Its a pity that they don't have a little symbol to show when you are having one of those goosy moments ;D
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