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AMEN. No man recognizing that endless decisions are necessary to daily life can deny the fact of free acts and conduct, for he knows he has freedom of action -- moral action -- concerning right and wrong, and that he is responsible to God for his every act. If one can deny these facts, he can deny his very existence and prove it on the same basis he tries to prove that he is not a free moral agent. That he is and that he is free to choose his own destiny and daily moral actions are facts known to sane beings.
I was having a conversation with someone yesterday concerning "free will." And the simple fact that if free will does not exist, then our idea of worship does not exist. For if free will does not exist, then it is under obligation and force that we worship, and not love. And we are nothing more than playthings on strings for someone's amusement. And if that were to be the case, then the one being amused is not one to be worshiped.
But instead, We love Him because He first loved us. And we are free not to as well, even though He desires us to. That, is One to be worshiped.
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us. AMEN.
This morning I offer my Mass for all at CAC; for peace, for your families, and for yourselves.
Our first reading is from Acts 14 and many of you remind me of Paul and Barnabas.
Just a guess: Acts 14:21-22 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.