Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
I’m thinking right now of King Zedekiah, before whom the king of Babylon killed his sons and then put out his eyes. I can’t imagine the horror of having the last thing you see be the death of your children, and then having to live with that vision.
Consider our ever-living, all-knowing, and all-seeing God, before whom hell and destruction never depart. Far from hiding from the view of such suffering, God, who is everywhere at once, chooses to allow the terrible view of hell to remain eternally before Him. He does not rejoice in the suffering of the lost. Neither does He turn His back and ignore it.
So much more, He studies the hearts of the children of men and desires that they should come to repentance. Some complain that if God is all-powerful, why did He allow evil to exist, and why doesn’t He force people to comply with goodness? The very people who make those complaints would hate it the most if He did. They would then be slaves, robots, trapped in a situation where they did what was right because there was no other option. And they wouldn’t have chosen that option had it been possible.
God is not helpless. He is wise. He is patient. He is all love and all good. And He gives each of us the free will to choose whichever path we please.
- He has given us directions for the strait path,
- He has provided examples for the strait path,
- He has unlocked the gate to the strait path and
- He has shown us the consequences of choosing the broad path
But He will not herd us like cattle onto the strait path.
And so, hell and destruction remain forever before Him, as are the hearts of the children of men. He longs for those hearts to choose Him and everlasting life.
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Straight Talk on Free Will: Hell, Redemption, and the Road Less Traveled
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