Thursday, January 13, 2022

I can do whatsoever in God's green earth but all to God's purpose.

God created us to have free will and will never violate that as long as we live on this planet. Each human has a moral responsibility to do what is right in the sight of God and in the sight of man. However, we have been also given a free will to choose and do the contrary. We can choose to do good and we can choose to do evil. But we are all to give an account before God one day.
 In the book of Acts 2:22-23, despite God's divine purpose of Jesus, the Pharisees carried out their wicked plans and did whatsoever pleased their hands. Here we see God's divine purpose along with man's own freewill coming into cultivation. Acts 4 :27-28 draws a distinction between God's divine purpose and man's free will. God will use whatsoever a man proposes and makes it good for his own purpose. C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain writes,"For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John." Ultimately, God will hold you accountable for all your acts.
Afterall, intelligent creatures created by God are to come and give a record of all their actions. Romans 14: 12 speaks concerning man's accountability towards God" so then each of us shall give account of himself to God. Likewise in Hebrews 4:13 which says and "there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. So therefore, every words, action and decision we have made will not only be weighed and tried but will be judged by the God. This is what, we humans, cannot escape from the hands of The Almighty God who upholds all things.

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