hey, i'm new here, and i'm going through some pretty intense times.
Christians often have a mindset that God knows the future, I don't limit God's power, but I do pay close attention to our free will in conjunction to it. I mean, if God does know the future he could tell me something i will do, right? But don't i always have the free will to go directly against that? Or commit suicide right after he tells me the answer?
So is our culture right in saying there is a set plan for us that we need to go crazy about wondering if we are choosing the right thing? We feel like we are in a gigantic maze full of turns, and if we don't make the right ones, then we're screwed when it comes to the end. Many of these turns are moral rights and wrongs, and those are very clearly defined to what we should make. Ah! but there are many many other decisions in our lives too...where to go to college, who am i going to marry, what city should i go to for my job, what should be my job...etc. I DO believe God has predestined our talents and gifts, to which he has a plan that we should sharpen those things and use them to the fullest for him. So that if our motive is totally pure, and we pray over these things for him to open doors to spread the love he has filled in us to where ever we choose to go we won't be doing "the wrong thing".
I mean, if we believe that some decision is going to be deeply benificial to our life, how can God say that we shouldn't do that? Is not the deciding factor our motive that we feel in us? Can I choose wrong out of the hope to grow in Christ and build my relationship with Him so I can reflect it to the world?
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