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Something hit me sort of randomly as a prepared a sermon on Psalm 33 this afternoon. Psalm 33 has little to do with our free will, so far as I can tell, but this came to me anyway...
Though God does not interfere with our free will, He does always guide the consequences of our choices. He prefers to guide them with the creation order that He established in the beginning, because He loves His creation. However, because He loves His creation, and because we humans have tampered with the order and gone against it, God will at times step in to redirect the consequences of our actions, so that the outcome will be "for the good of those who love Him" (Rom. 8:28). For it was the order of things before the fall that all things did work for the good of all, because all loved God. Now His redirecting of consequences happens especially in the cases where the intentions of the heart are truly good and desiring to honor God, but the choice itself, because of our ignorance or general brokenness, fails to meet the honorable intent. As I examine these cases of foolish choices based on noble intent in my own life, I find this to often be the case; God will show me clearly the foolishness of my choice, yet He will also answer my prayer when in great humiliation I fall on my knees and ask Him to not let the outcome happen as it then appears it should naturally happen. In these cases I've found God almost always answers my prayer affirmatively and directs the outcome to something much closer to what I had first intended. In fact often He directs the outcome to be something much greater than I intended! Which perhaps is all just another way of saying that when sin abounds, grace abounds even more!
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