Our free will is not visible and does not have material existence. However, such factors do not render its existence impossible. Everyone has two (physical) eyes, but we also can see with our third (spiritual) eye. We use the former to see things in this world; we use the latter to see things beyond events and this world. Our free will is like our third eye, which you may call insight. It is an inclination or inner force by which we prefer and decide.
Man wills and God creates. A project or a building’s plan has no value or use unless you start to construct the building according to it, so that it becomes visible and serves many purposes. Our free will resembles that plan, for we decide and act according to it, and God creates our actions as a result of our decisions. Creation and acting or doing something are different things. God’s creation means that He gives actual existence to our choices and actions in this world. Without God’s creation, we can do nothing.
To illuminate a magnificent palace, we must install a lighting system. However, the palace cannot be illuminated until we flick the switch that turns on the lights. Until we do so, the palace will remain dark. Similarly, each man and woman is a magnificent palace of God. We are illuminated by belief in God, Who has supplied us with the necessary lighting system: intellect, reason, sense, and the abilities to learn, compare, and prefer.
Nature and events, as well as Divinely revealed religions, are like the source of electricity that illuminates this Divine palace of the human individual. If we do not use our free will to flick the switch, however, we will remain in darkness. Turning on the light means petitioning God to illuminate us with belief. In a manner befitting a servant at his lord’s door, we must petition the Lord of the Universe to illuminate us and so make us a “king” in the universe. When we do this, the Lord of the Universe treats us in a way befitting Himself, and promotes us to the rank of kingship over other realms of creation.
God takes our free will into account when dealing with us and our acts, for He uses it to create our deeds. Thus we are never victims of Destiny or wronged by Fate. However insignificant our free will is when compared with God’s creative acts, it is still the cause of our deeds. God makes large things out of minute particles, and creates many important results from simple means. For example, He makes a huge pine tree from a tiny seed, and uses our inclinations or free choice to prepare our eternal happiness or punishment.
To better understand our part, and that of our will power, in our acts and accomplishments, consider the food we consume. Without soil and water, air and the sun’s heat, none of which we can produce or create despite our advanced technology, we would have no food. We cannot produce a single seed of corn. We did not create our body and establish its relationship with food; we cannot even control a single part of our body. For example, if we had to wind our heart like a clock at a fixed time every morning, how long would we survive?
Obviously, almost all parts of the whole complex and harmonious universe, which is a most developed organism, work together according to the most delicate measures to produce a single morsel of food. Thus, the price of a single morsel is almost as much as the price of the whole universe. How can we possibly pay such a price, when our part in producing that morsel is utterly negligible, consisting of no more than our own effort?
Can we ever thank God enough for even a morsel of food? If only a picture of grapes were shown to us, could all of us work together and produce it? No. God nourishes us with His bounty, asking in return very little. For example, if He told us to perform 1,000 rak‘as (units) of prayer for a bushel of wheat, we would have to do so. If He sent a raindrop in return for one rak‘a, we would have to spend our whole lives praying. If you were left in the scorching heat of a desert, would you not give anything for a single glass of water?
How can we thank Him enough for each bodily limb? When we see sick and crippled people in hospitals, or when we ourselves are ill, we understand how valuable good health is. But can we ever thank Him enough for this blessing? The worship God Almighty orders us to perform is, in fact, for our personal benefit and spiritual refinement, and well as for a good personal and collective life. Furthermore, if we believe in and worship God, He rewards us with infinite happiness and bounties in Paradise.
In sum: Almost everything we have is given to us for practically nothing, and our part in the bounty we enjoy here is therefore quite negligible. Similarly, our free will is equally negligible when compared with what God Almighty creates from our use of it. Despite our free will’s weakness and our own inability to really understand its true nature, God creates our actions according to the choices and decisions we make through it.
2007-03-21 22:29:17
·
answer #1
·
answered by BeHappy 5
·
0⤊
0⤋
surely!!! It replaced into some thing extra formal, yet I used to talk to Him despite the reason and because I saved forward to my own ambition and desires, while He gave me avertisements I saved none and did my way going into further and further trubles! Into an end, interior a deep depresion, He saved my existence (!!!) the very 2nd I left away of all my deep desires... There, empty heart, i replaced into crammed with God's easy and Peace and Love - an entire New existence, a clean physique, a clean imaginative and prescient for the duration of the final and the destiny :) :) :) sure, he's my Saviour!!!
2016-10-19 07:56:42
·
answer #2
·
answered by ? 4
·
0⤊
0⤋
God's Will could be said to be "the ultimate perfection of Man" in which state freedom, justice and equality would be the defining characteristics of his existence.
In other words, Heaven on Earth through the Elevation and Evolution of Man into Oneness with God.
RM
2007-03-21 19:33:15
·
answer #3
·
answered by A.L.M. 2
·
0⤊
0⤋
Which particular god, Linda? Many religions have many gods. If you're talking about the Hebraic religions, even they have several names, and the Catholics even have Saints they treat as gods.
I think you should forget what God's will might be, and take responsibility for your own actions. Think about that for a minute and you'll see what I mean.
2007-03-21 19:32:27
·
answer #4
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
For all to be saved and to be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29; Ephesians 4:13).
2007-03-21 19:48:25
·
answer #5
·
answered by attacksheep74 2
·
0⤊
0⤋
God's will is whatever event, thing or situation God said to "Be!"
2007-03-21 19:29:27
·
answer #6
·
answered by farina m 4
·
0⤊
0⤋
God's will is your will.
Your will is God's will.
God's will is my will.
My will is God's will.
Everyone's will is God's will.
The collective of God's will.
Everyone was created in the image!
2007-03-21 19:35:26
·
answer #7
·
answered by ? 5
·
0⤊
0⤋
He said: I`m 100% love and all things are too (but not 100%) because I want create them.I`m your real love humans...take a partner to find me better,feel me(love) better...
2007-03-21 19:36:22
·
answer #8
·
answered by Khashi 1
·
0⤊
0⤋
I don't care about God's will. I care about MY OWN will.
2007-03-21 19:45:13
·
answer #9
·
answered by Lynnemarie 6
·
0⤊
0⤋
Fate, Destiny, the flow of time, the flow of life, the flow of death, the flow.
2007-03-21 19:31:38
·
answer #10
·
answered by Adia Azrael 4
·
0⤊
0⤋