"The freedom of choice that we are given includes the possibility of sin. When people choose evil over God, the result would be the suffering"
God is all-powerful. I would think that He can handle, or should handle all the bad things that are going on in this world. Looking at the result in our world today, i would always ask why, either consciously or unconsciously or just wiping this question away as my life now is mostly better than half of the world is facing, or ignoring the looming question because it is so hard to be answered and i have no answer to it, why would God allow pain and suffering to happen in our world? The genocides, the accidents, the sickness, deaths..
I am now reading this book called Case For Faith by Lee Strobel. It seeks to explain all the difficult questions in life. Now i am in the first part of the first chapter and i just need some time to digest them...to soak in them.....
As to the question that have been in my mind since a very long time, i think i found a partial of the answer in this truth above. We are given the free will by God. A free will to choose. If we can choose to the good side, we can also choose to do the bad. God cannot stop us from choosing the bad as this will contradict with his free will plan for us. So, basically, the choice that we have is actually the source where sins or pain or suffering come from.
This truth is still resounding in me. Even though i have known the story about Eve going against God in the beginning, i didnt really connect it to the things that happen now in our world. Or maybe i had just forgotten about this truth.
I am shaken.
What choice have i made that contribute to the increasing sin, suffering and pain in this world?
God, what have i done? What sin have i cowardly closed my eyes to that contribute to this downfall state?
Help me to repent from them...
"Real love must involve a choice. But with the granting of that choice comes the possibility that people would choose instead to hate."
Gosh..i really have so much freedom in my choice..and that, my choice is actually a very heavy responsibility that God has granted me.
To how i use this choice, will be all up to me.
I need to remember the magnitude of this.
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