Free Will

I am thankful for free will and the freedom to choose what to do. While I believe that there are absolute truths and a right way to live I am also aware that God has given us a choice. While, I don't always make the right choices and sometimes ignore what I know in my heart is the right answer or move to make I am thankful that I serve a God who knows that I am not perfect. While his forgiveness does not excuse my sin it does make it possible for me to be made right with him. There are times when I just want God to intervene and tell me what to do or fix the problems in front of me, but that would be taking away our free will and choices. God gives us free will so that we can have a relationship with him and converse with him. It really is an amazing thing to think about-- that God loves us so much that he wants to be in a relationship with us even though he knows we will not be the perfect friend and may make some major mistakes down the road. Actually he even takes it farther by promising us to walk through our mistakes with us and see us through to a brighter tomorrow. So today I am thankful for free will because it's through my imperfections and choices and circumstances that I've come to really know and rely on God. Oswald Chambers wrote that it is through our circumstances that God talks to us, and I would have to agree.