Free will is a gift of free grace from the uncontrolling love of God. We have free choice to do right or wrong. To claim free choice, when God is always the hidden decider of even the most minute details of our lives, makes the words “free will” mean nothing. We make choices each day to help or ignore, heal or hurt, encourage or blame, fight or make peace. We are to use choice in godly ways. We are to use it based on the Golden Rule. Free will needs free grace, which makes us truly free to choose the right and the good. Right choices build character. We are responsible for how we use it and will be judged by its deeds.
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:10 (NASB)
You are reading from the book, “Springs In Dry Places”, by H. Lamar Smith
