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A personal take on free choice. First I must point out that there are many in this world who have their freedom to choose restricted. Some obvious examples are prisoners or those that live under the shadow of an oppressive regime. Less obvious examples are those that are bound by cultural, religious customs or simple by peer pressure. To have true freedom of choice requires much thought and carefulness in your actions, words and thought.
To explain, we go through life with conventions, norms, dictates, laws etc which we follow without much thought. What if we thought about each action, free from these bounds, using god as our compass. Would we lead the same life, would we say the same things. Jesus broke the rules, he made his own freedom of choice, in fact he went so far having a line of thought which was contrary to those of the times, and he acted on it.
Obviously we cannot lead a life where we would have true freedom of choice, because not everyone, society or government would be accepting of it and it would be a road to self sacrifice. But what if, on a daily basis, expressed our freedom of choice as in gods will. What if we picked up that discarded soda can in front of the public, what if took the pan handler home and fed him. Would your life end, probably not, would you be ostracised, doubtful. Would you know that you had a freedom to choose, and choose the right way, yes, and both you, god and the panhandler would lead a better life for it.
So exercise your freedom of choice as much as you can, just use God and Jesus to help you learn how to use it
To explain, we go through life with conventions, norms, dictates, laws etc which we follow without much thought. What if we thought about each action, free from these bounds, using god as our compass. Would we lead the same life, would we say the same things. Jesus broke the rules, he made his own freedom of choice, in fact he went so far having a line of thought which was contrary to those of the times, and he acted on it.
Obviously we cannot lead a life where we would have true freedom of choice, because not everyone, society or government would be accepting of it and it would be a road to self sacrifice. But what if, on a daily basis, expressed our freedom of choice as in gods will. What if we picked up that discarded soda can in front of the public, what if took the pan handler home and fed him. Would your life end, probably not, would you be ostracised, doubtful. Would you know that you had a freedom to choose, and choose the right way, yes, and both you, god and the panhandler would lead a better life for it.
So exercise your freedom of choice as much as you can, just use God and Jesus to help you learn how to use it