Free Will

Thursday Matters- January 9, 2020
Everyday Good and Bad

It all comes down to free will.  We have a choice to choose good and evil actions.  I have make bad choices whether it was telling a lie or stealing but I have also had the same bad happen to me, someone lying and stealing from me.  C.S. Lewis said, “If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” I have to really stop and think about that but it’s true.  It’s the freedom of choice that makes love real. Being forced to love God is not real love at all.  It goes back to the basics of what being a Christian is. Accept God’s love, His grace and HIS work on the cross. It’s not about our good works. When we understand this we can really start loving others freely…everyday.