DOES FREE WILL EXIST? 
Autor: Andrea Rincon | Publicado: 2013-03-14T10:07:00-07:00








Would you close your eyes and follow your path, just by blindly trusting in what lies ahead? Facing daily life, awaiting the events in&nbsp;your&nbsp;destiny that you believe have been pre-drawn for you?&nbsp;Do you really know what consists in to have faith?
Would you have the humility to accept, whether good or evil, doing so with gratitude, believing that God ( or what ever you believe it's out there) always wants the best for you? As much as it may seem otherwise? When you try with all your might to change your situation, your life and all doors and paths are closed, do you understand what's really happening?


YOU WANTED AND DECIDED to change, you DID everything you could, all that was within your reach but could not ... Why? for reasons that depend and took place through external influences, totally out of your control, independent of your will or effort!? As the mood of a single person who ends up taking a wrong decision against you in an irrevocable situation? A storm that falls at the wrong time? Rain that does not fall in the crop fields? The payment that you did not receive? The disease that puts you to bed? The car that has been stolen from you? Like a career, to which you devoted years of studying, graduating with difficulty and in the end, you work with something totally different because the job market does not give you the opportunity that you wanted...?



Now explain to me one thing: how do you explain the POWER of your FREE WILL in these situations? You decided, did everything you could to make it so but in the end, something alien to your will happens and all that you did to achieve your decision, it was just in vain ... Is free will an illusion? Something that God gave us to simply "think'' that we are masters of our own destiny?&nbsp;Could it be that our free will is not limited to the decision of little things in our daily life as the choice of color of our goods? The kind of clothes we wear? The color, the type of car you CAN buy? Between what we eat or drink? Where we can live? That is, if you think about it deeply, you will see that even most of these daily choices are circumstantial, &nbsp;depend on what it's "possible" for us and not what we really want!

Moreover, as the "doors" are closed, other "doors" open, also independent of our influence and effort!


As an unexpected raise or promotion, rain that brings a bountiful harvest, the hand of a friend in a difficult situation when you though you were forgotten by him, when someone divides a lottery prize with you, when you get called up for that job you so much hoped for, when the beloved son that you thought lost returns home, when in hunger a stranger brings you something to eat, or in sadness, a smile, or in loneliness, somebody devotes a simple prose to you, the healing of a terminal illness ... gestures, acts, situations that are often accepted as obvious or "normal", which we believe are just fruits of our efforts and that actually ARE NOT! If they were, they would always happen if we wanted to and they would depend on our effort and not just on circumstances and will of others, agree? So, could it be that these things don't just happen to help guide us? Jesus says that "the peace" in our heart determines whether we are taking the right path. Are we able to listen to our hearts and recognize if what we feel is following the course of our lives, is our true peace or just a state accommodated to conformity?








I mean, do we know if we are on the right path to a destination that, YES, was outlined for us? That is, do we observe and we see around us, the doors that really open for us and we enter through? Blindly believing that what lies ahead is ours to live? Could it not be that that is the way that God (or the Universe) speaks to us and guides us?

If it is really so, would you have enough humility to accept what God has set for you in this life? That He has as your creator, every right to want for you what He sees fit and not what YOU want for you?&nbsp;
And then? Difficult? or will you face life as a good adventure?

Now I ask you, Do you think that you really knew what is to have faith?&nbsp;

P.S. more about it:
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