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Chronicles
32 tells us an incredible amount of information about God and our relationship
with Him. He is all powerful. Nothing can stand in His way. Yet, He gives us free will. He allows us to make our own decisions and
then modifies His omniscient will to accommodate.
For example,
take the Assyrians. He raised them
up. He empowered them. He exalted them into a position of
supremacy. What does He get in
return? The Assyrians blaspheme against
Him. They think God is unable to save
the Hebrews, just like the gods of other nations have been unable to save
them. His omnipotence brought the
Assyrians up into the position they were in; God’s desire to give them free
will gave them the space to choose to turn their back upon Him.
On the other
hand, look at Hezekiah. Here is a man who
finds himself besieged by an enemy of God’s own making. What does Hezekiah do? He takes some logical steps such as blocking
up the water reserves and making sure the city is armed and defensible. More importantly, though, Hezekiah turns to
God and leads the people into an appeal to His greatness. Hezekiah sees that the horde with Sennacherib
is nothing compared to the power of God that is with the people of Jerusalem.
God gives us
all free will to respond to Him. Some of
us turn against God in our free will because we don’t think we need Him. Others of us turn in our free will to the
only one who can make sense of life. Granted,
none of us are perfect. But the reality
is that God moves among the nations and gives us the ability to see Him at work
or deny His influence in our life.
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