http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=217 Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions Thu, 29 May 2014 16:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=217&cpage=1#comment-64 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:45:45 +0000 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=217#comment-64 Pete, I think you are right on target and I think that running the other way is exactly what some of us try. Of course, in running with our freedom from the presence of God, we almost always try to fill the God-spot with a substitute: either something we effectively worship with our lives (in that we make it our first priority) or with something that will deaden the sense of God’s absence: for example, addictions — which also end up filling the God-spot. Lewis was right, it’s the risk God takes in the name of creating beings who can love and be loved by God. Thanks, Pete!

]]> http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=217&cpage=1#comment-63 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:03:13 +0000 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=217#comment-63 Fred,
Great comments. I think on your last question “how do i run from the freedom god has given me” is an interesting one and I’d like to pitch something at you. What if the freedom God has given us is the ability to run, free will. Jonah, even after being spat up by the whale could have booked another ticket to Timbuktu. “God willed the free will of men and angels in spite of His knowledge that it could lead in some cases to sin and thence to suffering: i.e., He thought freedom worth creating even at that price.” writes CS Lewis. So that what God has given us, freewill, allows us to turn, not only to God, but from God.

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