…to defining it, that is. Love has two such extremes – it’s both beautiful and painful, and hard to understand.
Resetting the Compass – Day 11
Being the the thinker, writer, teacher, and student that I have been all my life, causes me to question the things man has been questioning since the beginning of time. I was born and raised on the the premise that God is the great creator of the universe. That’s okay. I like to think my God is that majestic and powerful. Then I have a problem with that. If God is the only one that can do whatever He wants, then why did He let pain and evil into the beautiful world He built? He made the plants and animals all good. They just exist and do their job everyday contributing to the world God made. They don’t have any choice to choose good or bad. They just are. Then God makes man and gives man a choice. God allows evil to be the alternative to good. Why would He DO that? Why didn’t he just make man all good, without a choice, like the plants and animals?
All those deep questions I struggled with for years, and today, I run across a simple line in a reading by Max Lucardo that begins to answer my question. Millions of books and papers have been written on this question, and the answer, for me anyway, lies in one simple line. God was showing the future of His creation to an angel. The angel said, “Wouldn’t it be easier not to plant the seed? Wouldn’t it be easier not to give the choice?”
“It would,” the Creator spoke slowly. “But to remove the choice, is to remove the love.”
Wow. Profound. To not give man the choice, is to remove the love. Love is the reason we have a choice. Though He is constantly moving within our lives, He never forces our hand. He will give us providential circumstances and relationships, but to act in accordance with His will for us, is ultimately our choice.
And so, as another day goes by, this year I will remember I always have a choice when it comes to doing the right thing – because of love…and…I have written.
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