the will

The human will defined:

power to make decisions

The

Human

Will by Sister Cathy Harris

God created every human being with a will. Within that will there is an inherent power to make decisions. The word power implies: authority, muscle, clout, control, influence, supremacy, rule, command, sway, dominance.

Deuteronomy 30:19

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:

If man did not have the authority to make choices why would God ask us to choose? The very fact that God gave us a choice proves that He gave us the power to choose. If we did not have the power to make our own choices in life we would be mere robots, unaccountable for any of our actions. We would just go through life doing what we were programmed to do. God did not make us robots. God created us in His image and in His likeness. He wanted a people that would willingly choose to follow Him and joyfully do His will. However, God will never force His will on anyone, we must choose life over death and blessing over cursing.

Many times people like to throw the blame for their bad decisions in life on God. They wrongly make statements such as, "Well this must just be the will of God for me." Wow, what a lame way to try to dodge personal responsibility and accountability. God is not responsible for our haphazard decision making or our neglect to learn and follow His plan for our personal lives.

Jesus made it very clear, as a man anointed by God, that though He was free from sin, He still had a will. He was not a puppet but He freely yielded His will to the Father. Jesus gave us and excellent example of how to properly make right choices and use our will to glorify God through total surrender.

Matthew 26:42

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

John 5:30

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

In the beginning, Genesis 2:16, God gave man a command and specific instructions, leaving man with the ultimate decision to obey or disobey. Man's will at that time had not yet been corrupted by sin's cruel bite.

Your will is a member of your soul. Your will along with the other members of your soul were greatly influenced and corrupted by sin before you were born again. Our will was trained and greatly influenced by the kingdom of darkness to oppose God's will, (Ephesians 2). For this reason, our soul's must now be re-trained or transformed, after the new birth, to submit and agree with the will of God, (Romans 12:1-2).

This is not something that happens automatically, we must choose to allow God to change our mind-set.

Joshua 24:15

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua refused to follow the crowd. He chose to serve God even though everyone else was wanting to follow after the old way of doing things. Notice, God did not make Joshua choose His way, God made it available but not by force or contraint. We must choose to allow the word of God to Detoxify our soul; mind, will and emotions, so that we can be a people yielded and well pleasing to God.

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