Thoughts on Freewill
There is this idea that freewill gives us a freedom to choose anything for ourselves. This all makes perfect sense in theory, but it doesn't work quite so well in practice. Once freewill steps off the pages of philosophy and into reality it looses its freedom and becomes binding.
To choose anything one thing is to reject all other things. Every choice limits the vast options previously available. Even in choosing apathy one has rejected everything but nothing itself.
To admire freewill is not to appreciate infinite choice, but recognize the beauty in such limit
ed choice. It is the limited nature of freewill that brings meaning and definition to anything earthly. An artist may claim to want freedom of expression, but it is only in his lack of freedom that he creates a masterpiece. He cannot create beautiful music without notes, or paint a tiger without stripes. If he does he has succeeded in creating neither.
Freewill is not the blessing of infinite choice but the curse of it.
Freedom from will only comes with the complete surrender of will itself, and this itself is a choice.
In the book of Romans, Paul talks about this idea of freedom in Christ through enslavement to Him.
Christ loved us so much he gave us freedom from choice.
God is not defined by what our will wants him to be. As a musician cannot create music without notes, a man cannot define the infinite.
In choosing Jesus we loose our own definition in the infinite will of God.
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