Saturday 19 March 2016

Love and the Freedom of Choice

Is love, love without the freedom of choice? Could God have created us in a way where we would love Him without the choice to do so? No. Love wouldn't be love if there is no freedom of choice. We would all be like robots if we were programmed to 'love' Him, and that is not love. That is at most obedience or compliance. If God created us to have a relationship with Him, then, the freedom of choice must be embedded in His creation so that we can truly love Him.

The choice we have is this: To believe in God, the creator of the heavens and the earth, who loves us so much, or, to not believe in God, and to live our lives as if God does not exist. 

"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:12) I thank God for this undeserving privilege to become His child.