How does God teach us lessons in life?

[Jeovana]

I have always wondered the ways God work. We have freewill but to what extend and limit and when does divine intervention steps in?

 

[thesunisout]

I have always wondered the ways God work. We have freewill but to what extend and limit and when does divine intervention steps in?

We have free will to obey or disobey Gods commands, but nothing further than that. God is sovereign over His creation; scripture says God upholds the entire Universe by the word of His power

Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

He is omnipresent which means He is everywhere at once. So, Gods providence extends over our whole life. We need to trust Him with our whole life because He is in control.

 

[LilLamb219]

How does God teach us lessons in life? He teaches us through His Law what is good and holy, the things we are to do and not do. He teaches us when we live our lives and experience things. When we commit sins, He allows us to suffer consequences. These are not punishments for the sins because Christ took our punishments to the cross, but we suffer consequences.

I mean, if you run a red light (not God's Law but He expects us to follow the laws of our lands) and you hit a car, you'll suffer the consequences of those actions.

 

[Emmy]

Dear Jeovana. The 10 Commandments were loving advice to us. God does not force us to follow them, we are free to either follow God`s Commandments, or ignore them. There is also God`s Law of Justice, we know it under: " What ye sow ye will also reap." That teaches us lessons for life. When we sow Goodness and Love, we will reap Goodnes and Love, it will always be in God`s time, and then it will teach us. When we sow ill feelings, or bad deeds, we will sow fitting consequences, always at the best time to teach us. Sometimes God gives us enough time to learn ourselves, or sometimes God will know, that we are best taught straighaway. St.Paul will tell us more about it in Galatians, chapter 6, verse 7.
God wants us to learn to love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our minds. Also, God wants us to love our neighbour, (all others, friends or not friends) as we love ourselves. God is Love, and God wants loving children/sons and daughters. Jesus told us that in Matthew, chapter 22, verses 35-40. AND Jesus told us: " On these two Commandments hang all the Law, and the Prophets." Love is all-important to have; for God first and our neighbour, also. I say this with love, Jeovana. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ. P.S. Selfless Love=AGAPE, everything we do, or say, or advocate, should be done from selfless love.

 

[Bible2]

Jeovana said in post #1:

How does God teach us lessons in life?

I have always wondered the ways God work. We have freewill but to what extend and limit and when does divine intervention steps in?

If saved people commit a sin (even if they're unaware of it) and then don't repent from that sin, Jesus Christ will send them warning and chastisement to make sure that they know they've sinned and still need to repent (Revelation 3:19, Hebrews 12:6-7, cf. Jeremiah 31:18-19), and he will give them time to repent (Revelation 2:21a).

But if they wrongly employ their free will to waste the time they're given and ignore the warning and chastisement, and refuse to repent (Revelation 2:21-23, cf. Deuteronomy 21:18-21) until death (1 John 5:16b) or Jesus' return (Luke 12:45-46), then they will in the end lose their salvation because of unrepentant sin (Hebrews 10:26-29, 1 Corinthians 9:27, Galatians 5:19-21).

If saved people become unsure whether they've ignored Jesus' warning and refused to repent from a sin, they need to pray and ask him to reveal to them if there's any unrepentant sin in their hearts (Psalms 139:23-24), and they need to be reading the Bible, every word of it (Matthew 4:4, 2 Timothy 3:16), over and over again, for it will expose to them every unrepentant sin which may still exist within their hearts (Hebrews 4:12, 2 Timothy 3:16), so that they can repent from it and confess it to God and be perfect before God (2 Timothy 3:17, 1 John 1:9).

 

[Peripatetic]

The fact is, we don't know exactly how much free will we have. God is sovereign, and He can cause or prevent anything that is not aligned with His eternal plan. Sometimes He caused specific actions and behaviors in the Bible (such as the hardening of Pharaoh's heart and Joseph's brothers selling him into slavery). For all we know, He may have prevented world events too, such as an all-out nuclear missile attack in the 1980s.

On the other hand, He gave us free will to work within some set of boundaries. We'll just never know where those boundaries begin and where they end. Nor should we! For us, it all appears to be freedom.