Freewill To Choose Or Refuse

My Lord is a very personal God, kind, loving, and true. He's trustworthy, steady, and faithful as the morning dew. Though our times and conditions are modern, there exists no modern man. I have read history. The present is no mystery. The spirit of man remains decadent. For ages past and for as far as records were cast, civilized man has been most cruel, mean, and rash. He's found it easy to be brutal, utilizing his punishing rods. And although throughout ages past, man has always had his gods, their impersonal gods never seemed to have curved man's bitter hate. Perhaps mankind and his gods always knew that evil was the master of their fate. Perhaps it's because such men formed and fashioned their own 'gods'. And perhaps these man-made gods are designed to serve their maker's needs. Though I too am human just as they, others and I chose another path, a different life than they. Though I too am imperfect as are they, I chose not to have faith in a god that way. I don't have many gods, but 'One God' who made me in His image to serve Him gladly. Both you and I have felt the sting of mankind's depravity and witnessed our atrocities. By God's Grace, I have not found a cause nor a reason great enough to compel me to hate. With love and joy, with a 'free will' to worship Him, I am not forced to serve Him or His interests. With God's Grace I am infused with a different spirit which impels me to be caring and loving to all people. Christ is the hope in me, and He teaches me to be respectful and gracious to all. 081920PS