wisdom spotlight - pastor david sarmago

God’s Choices About the Creation of the World:

• Create Nothing
• Create No Good or Evil
• Create Only Good
• Create the Possibility of Good & Evil = Freewill

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good, it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. - C.S. Lewis

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. - John 3:16-18

Man’s Choice About the World:

• Acknowledge there is a God; Both Creator and Designer of All
• Deny God Exist

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​Your behavior will follow your beliefs.

Other choices we have:

To be:

• Different or Indifferent
• Extraordinary or Ordinary
• Significant or Insignificant
• Competent or Incompetent
• Compatible or Incompatible
• Active or Inactive
• Indispensable or Dispensable
• Effective or Defective
• Adept or Inept
• Distinct or Indistinct
• Adequate or Inadequate
• Efficient or Inefficient
• Superior or Inferior
• Responsible or Irresponsible
• Solvent or Insolvent
• Sane or Insane
• Consistent or Inconsistent
• Insightful or Despiteful
• Irresistible or Resistible
• Sensitive or Insensitive
• Uncommon or Common
• Decisive or Indecisive 
• An Original or A Copy

Is it more important to you to love God or to love yourself and the life you are creating? The choice really is yours to make. God loves you so much that He holds nothing back from you. He loves you enough to let you walk away. He loves you with an ever-burning passion to see you return to Him. You will always have the choice to love, serve, and obey the One who created you, the One who has nothing but the best in mind for you. But you will also always have the choice to walk away and try it your own way. The choice will always be yours but know the consequences will always result in God’s will or your own. 

​Which choice do you think will work out better?