You have always had a choice!
From the time you were born you have had to make choices in your life. To eat, to sleep, to smile and laugh, have always been your choices. As you got older you were faced with more choices, to learn to dress yourself, or use the potty chair, these where monumental decisions. The older you get, means more and more choices must be made on a daily basis. To get up on time, to go to school, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, and to take care of your clothes so you don’t look like a homeless person, are some of you daily choices. Yes, they are your choices, while there may be repercussions from these decisions, they are still your choices to make. With age comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes harder decisions. Obeying the traffic laws, what you put on the internet, and what friends you choose, are all your ‘free will’ decisions to make. And because you have the free will to make these choices, you are also responsible for the consequences of those choices. Some choices are not as serious as others, like what should be you’re major in college, verses, who to marry. Buy health and life insurance, verses, complying with an order to ‘stop’ made by a law enforcement officer whether in a car or on foot. My son made the choice to get into a car of someone who had been drinking. That choice cost him his life. The choices you make carries consequences with them.
When God decided to create the world, he made it with the intent of placing man, made in his own image, on it. He wanted to have someone to have the free will to commune with and love him unconditionally. With that decision made, he knew given the choice of free will, man would probably mess it up, so he made a plan to compensate for that innate free will to make bad choices. Willingly committing to sacrifice himself, (Jesus) so the consequence would be paid. Man is still left with the free will decision to cash in on that prepaid voucher, and gain eternal life, or reject it. The choice is yours and mine, and so are the consequences of that choice. Eternal life, or eternal damnation, it is really just that simple, but with monumental consequences.
As parents it is very important for us to teach our children that their actions carry consequences. You must have rules in place to keep your children safe. It is a proven fact that children thrive within the boundaries of practical rules. It allows them to experience while still knowing there is a safety net beneath them that will catch and support them. Do not think you are doing your child a favor by having no borders or boundaries, you are mistaken, and may be doing them irreparable harm. Of course that is your free will choice also.
We as authors can choose who we write about and how we make them come across in our writings. Of course, those choices will have an outcome on the finished product, and that is on us and the decisions we made. Just like the decisions we make in our everyday life, about paying our bills and buying things we cannot afford. Remember, for every action, (or decision) there is an equal and opposite reaction. Be careful of the choices you make or don’t make!
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:16-17
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy 30:19
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastics 9:10
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Proverbs 21:5
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Revelations 3:20