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Let’s Talk About Free Will, Suffering, and Why We Aren't Robots 🪵
I’ve been wrestling with some really deep stuff lately. I even tried to do a quick video about it, but you just can’t jam these kinds of massive thoughts into a two-minute clip. It comes out wrong, or it sounds like you're trying to scare people, and that’s not what I'm about at all. So, I wanted to sit down and just write it out, plain and simple. ✍️
First off, I want to be clear: I am not trying to scare non-Christians. Yes, I want everyone to be saved, obviously! But I’m also not looking at saved Christians who have a relatively trouble-free, privileged life and dismissing them.
The truth is, God has a unique plan for everyone. Some people go through awful, heartbreaking stuff, and others rarely experience trauma. God has taught me constantly through struggle, loss, and deep grief.
Sometimes, God needs to let you hit a season of breaking down. Not to destroy you, but to test you—to see if, in the hardest of times, you’re going to flee from Him or if you’re just going to stick to Him. 🌲
"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith... may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ." — 1 Peter 1:6-7
Struggle forces us to show what our faith is actually made of.
But I want to emphasize this, because it is so important: God does not cause you to go through hard times. 🙅♂️
If God caused the awful things in our life, that would imply God is doing evil. And God cannot do evil. It is completely against His nature; He is the exact opposite of evil.
"Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone." — James 1:13
And over in 1 John 1:5, it says: "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." ☀️
All the bad stuff in this world comes from sinning against God. God doesn't cause the sin, and He doesn't cause the tragedy. He just works with people right where they are at.
He wants everyone to be saved, but He is not going to program us like robots.
"The Lord is... not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." — 2 Peter 3:9
He desires all of us, but He gives us freedom. 🤖❌
Think about it this way—it’s a really good analogy. Imagine if you could mess with someone’s brain so they had to love you. They could never disagree with you, they could never think a bad thought about you, and all they could do was praise you and tell you how awesome you are.
How would that actually feel to you? 🤔
For the first minute or two, it might feel great! But what about the next minute? And the minute after that?
Having someone who can only think what you want them to think, and only do what you want them to do, is completely empty. It’s not the same as a real person loving you for you.
True love only happens when a person has the choice not to choose you. They have the full ability to walk away from you forever. Joshua talked about this exact choice back in the Old Testament:
"And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve... But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." — Joshua 24:15
See? God always gives us the line in the sand.
When instead of walking away, through the good times or the absolute worst times, someone chooses to stick with you... wouldn't that feel awesome? ❤️
And that is exactly how God is. If everything was perfect and we were genetically programmed to never disobey, there would be no free will. But God gave us free will. We can choose to follow Him, love Him, and be taught by Him—or not.
If you want to just live your own life and say, "I don't care," God is still going to love you. In fact, He loved you enough to give you the free will to make that choice in the first place.
That’s what I was trying to get acros
s. Thank you, everybody, for taking the time to read this. It just takes more than two minutes to say what matters. 🙏
