FREE WILL

Free Will

There is only one way to come to God: freely.

The greatest gift God has bestowed upon humanity, which sets it apart from all His earthly creation, is free will.

Free will, above all else, defines our nature as children of God, uniquely created in His image and likeness.  Our nature, as is God’s, is spiritual.

We are spiritual beings engaging in a physical experience, not physical beings engaging in a spiritual experience.

The earth is physical.  Heaven is spiritual.

God’s presence radiates Light, Love, Life.  His absence leaves Darkness, Desecration, Death.

The physical is fleeting, flawed, illusory, finite.  The spiritual is permanent, perfect, real, infinite.

We have been placed into this preliminary, preparatory plane by God through a union of earth with heaven, earthly matter imbued with the breath of God’s eternal life.

Before our placement on this earth, Darkness had become populated by heaven’s angelic outcasts, who had chosen hatred and death over love and life.  God has sovereignty over these beings but does not dwell among them.  As a result of God’s absence, they exist in unrelenting torment.  In their dark nature, they seek vengeance through the only means available to them, by luring God’s beloved into their own misery through lies, deception, trickery, temptation.

Onto earth we are born into a realm of beauty, of pleasure, of joy, though presently marred by enmity, by suffering, by death.

This has not always been so.

Eden.

Man and Woman once walked together on the earth in full dominion over its beauty.

Through deceit, through manipulation of our earthly human weakness, Man and Woman were deluded into exercising their free will in favor of darkness over light.  Our immortal, godly nature had become corrupted by accepting darkness into our spirit.  This defilement of our spirit persists throughout our earthly existence, from generation to generation.  Our corrupted nature has become easily influenced toward discontentedness, toward wickedness, toward darkness.

Our free will, however, remains intact.  Each choice we make is our sole responsibility, nontransferable to influencing factors.

Our banishment from paradise is not a punishment from God, but the direct consequence of our willing association with darkness.  Darkness by its nature tantalizes and cajoles.  Avoidance of darkness unveils the magnificence of the light.

Absolute light is perfection.  Absolute light is incorruptible.  Absolute light knows no darkness.  Absolute light is Divinity.

Anything tainted by darkness, by definition, cannot exist in absolute light.  To regain our birthright into absolute light, we must be cleansed, purified, purged of all darkness.  All traces of darkness must be completely expunged.

Only a Being born unto this earth, fully possessed of human vulnerability, yet fully Divine, eternally unblemished by darkness, can be capable of restoring the divine breath of eternal life, of absolute light, to its originally created state among God’s children.

For the benefit of all those tainted, this Being must teach us how to live within the light: to love our neighbors and enemies alike, to share our blessings and bounties generously, to practice the virtues of forgiveness and mercy freely, to trust in Him completely.

On behalf of all those tainted, this perfectly untainted Being must accept and bear all the consequences of darkness: the enmity, the suffering, the torment, and ultimately death.  But endurance of all this pain merely victimizes Him.  In order to eradicate the scars of darkness, He must reveal the power of the light to undo the suffering: to heal the afflicted, to feed the hungry, to right injustices, to command the darkness, to conquer death itself.  Through total sacrifice for the attributes of darkness, this innocent and perfect Son of God has drawn the consequences of darkness away from God’s other tainted children.  Through His complete and everlasting triumph over darkness and death, He has Redeemed the rest of us and restored God’s light to our spirits that we may choose to reunite our spirits to the absolute light of God for eternity.  It is a choice made available to us through His gift of our free will.  It is a choice each of us must make: to embrace the false but enticing promises of the darkness, or to journey the narrower path of humility, selflessness, compassion, gratitude, and love.

As we continue our constant struggle with darkness throughout our own mortal earthly lives, we are faithful that we, too, may overcome darkness and death through Him.  Until His return He has left us, through His sacrifice and triumph, with the means to obtain mercy and forgiveness, as well as graces to inspire and fortify us in our resolve to safeguard and effectively exercise our free will in the direction of Light, of Love, of Life.

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One very special manner of exercising free will is through a practice we call:

SufferingWell

Do you know that as Jesus brought Salvation to this world through His Suffering, Death, and Resurrection, we are called to share in His sacrifice through the crosses we must bear?*

Each one of us is graced with the privilege of joining Jesus on a tiny sliver of His Cross by uniting our sufferings, sacrifices, and temptations with His own.**

Through His Divine Mercy, we are blessed each day with the opportunity to offer the Lord our hardships to alleviate the anguish and sorrow of others, drawing both them and ourselves so much closer to Him!

We invite you to learn more about this miraculous gift.  Please view some videos, comment, 

https://clikview.com/@SufferingWell?page=videos

and/or send us an email:

SufferingWell@protonmail.com

*New American Bible, revised edition:

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after Me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me” (Jesus, Mt 16:24)

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of His body, which is the church (Apostle Paul, Col 1:24)

**As expressed through the words of St. Paul the Apostle, St. Pope John Paul II, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Faustina, St. Padre Pio, et al.