We Need to Cooperate With God
I was praying the Lord's Prayer yesterday while on my morning walk when I had a thought that I never had before. To some it may be what I call a "Duhism." You know when you think something or share a thought with someone else and you think or they say, "Duh?! Everybody knows that!" It has to do with the part of the prayer: Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done ON EARTH, as it is in Heaven. Why does God not force His will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven? He could, but that would take away our free will, and God granted us free will. Which means that, if God's will is to be done on earth as it is in Heaven, we have to cooperate. We get to choose whether or not God's will is done on earth as it is in Heaven. That leads to many more thoughts, but I'll stop there.