Saturday, November 27, 2021

Endowed with the Ability to say No

....choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: 
but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua 24:15
 
"The issue is always planted in God's created soil of Freedom
Before love, there had to be freedom

All created intelligences, beginning with the angels and extending throughout the inhabited worlds, were endowed with freedom—the freedom even to say No to God's plan for them. 
 
In other words, responsibility (ability-to-respond) was the actionable word—freedom to respond to their Creator, either positively of negatively.  
 
Love is an attribute found only in the larger embracing air of freedom
 
Throughout the Biblical story, God was trying to make clear what He planned to accomplish with His salvation plan, as He manifested His fairness, love, and trustworthiness through His dealing with, first, the Israelites and eventually, in the person of Jesus Christ." 
Herbert Douglass