February 2007

Free Will Choice

This comment was inspired by a conversation within the ministers fellowship of CrossWorks you can apply to subscribe to the fellowship list on the web site.

Free Will Choice how important is it really?

Jim Wallace is a great man of God and we need to continually pray for him, as he is able to influence our government for righteousness.

When Linda and I were in Canberra for that fateful and funny trip, I met Jim and it was when he had just left the military to embark on what he is doing now.

He has a radio show in Canberra, which is how we met, he interviewed me on the show.

The reality is the more God raises these sorts of people up the more the church needs to back them, in every way possible. One of the things he and I discussed on the show was Evolution verses the science of Creation. Jim said "I want my children to learn about evolution otherwise when they get into a world that so totally believes this, they wont be able to cope. Which opened it up for me to get across, that children should have available more than one theory about origins.

God kept telling me to keep it as simple as this ...... We all have the right of free will choice, if we only have the information from one perspective available to our children we have effectively removed their basic right to choose what belief system they will live in.

God created us with free will, the gift to us that actually is the basis of real loving relationship and, without voluntary love out of free will choice, there is no real love at all.

Even though it is His will (God's will) that non would perish but all would come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, He has made it so that this can only come from a free will choice otherwise the higher goal of loving relationship with us could not be achieved. If the foundation of relationship is not in place, you have no real relationship.

Real commitment can only come from a person who knows they can at any time choose otherwise. Real commitment is the basis or foundation of real relationship.

I tell people who have not yet received Jesus and the salvation which is supplied to them by the Grace of God this, "I will always uphold your right to choose even though God loves you so much that He has made done all that is necessary, so you do not have to go to hell, and can have a wonderful relationship with Him. He also gave you the right to choose to go to hell, if you really want to, and reject the salvation that is available to you.

Therefor if you have enough knowledge to make an informed decision on the subject of how you will spend eternity, I have done my job. However, if you are stumbling along in ignorance just because you have not been told the truth, and I had the chance to let you know your choices, that is not right.

The problem is in your ignorance you have no real choice because if you do not have all the information needed to make a decision you are not really choosing, you are deceived by whoever is giving you the un balanced information. So what I want to do, is just give you some information for you to investigate your choices properly and I will absolutely respect your decision once you have all the information, how does that sound?"

We as Christians need to up hold freedom to choose and point out how important it is to those who think they live in a democracy but are led along like sheep to the slaughter.

In fact my war cry if ever on air or in the media in the future is this, "I just want every Australian child to have information available to them, ensuring they know what their choices are, in essential areas to build their life upon." and to those who would challenge that "If your position is so strong and good then why are you so afraid to let the young people choose for themselves what is right for them?"

That is one of the insidious things about legalism, it effectively seeks to make robots all the same rather than individuals expressing a free will love relationship with their wonderful Creator.

Love Lee