Freewill.

Our freewill is a gift given out of God's love. It's a gift, not a curse, as most people may think. It's a blessing; not a vehemence. God gave us the ability - not the power - to choose because he initially graced us with rationality, that ability to process information and concept and decide after. It is in our blueprint to think, to decipher rightness and wrongness of a thing or action. But of course, what good is it for us if we could only decipher and differentiate but can't choose which side of the coin to go, and which path to tread on?

Exercising freewill on the belief or unbelief of God for instance is a direct manifestation of this precious gift. But the more important thing about this is that it shows that as much as God wants us to be on his side always, he did not coerced nor forced. He wittingly left us to our own thinking devices and capacities because he trusts us.

Choice therefore means learning. As we make choices, we are flooded with many opportunities, chances we can take to either turn things to our favor or let us be consumed harshly. And choice slash freewill slash freedom just proves how God works to make us understand the reality of this physical world - the lightness or heaviness of beings, the bearability or un-bearability of passions, and the rhythm or stillness of moments.

Often, we say his ways are magnificent; his works, a wonder. But how many of us truly understand this? Statement-wise, it is the visual that overpowers our senses. We've never really tried to dig into the reasons of how things work.

Why in times of trouble we often think that God abandoned us? Why is it easier to put the blame on him? Why do we question his credibility when things go against our liking? Perhaps, it may even not our choice that they happen, that we just randomly meet them along the path we tread on. Have it ever occurred to us that in a snap, God may command the heavens, the earth, and the seas to conspire against us? But of course, he wouldn't do that. Not in an unintended, purposeless manner.

So God, that omniscient and omnipotent being, left us instead with choices and to make choices for us to learn by ourselves, for us to realize the consequences of our own choosing, for us to personally navigate into the depths of our humanity, and for us to intentionally choose him and accept that we are his most beloved creation.

Imagine a world where we can think but we can never choose, where we can believe but can't fight for nor negate such, and where we are just like any other forms of animals - living each day by internally recorded instinct.