Choice

Choice.

One characteristic that God gave mankind being made in His image and likeness that makes us as unique as He is, is the ability to choose.

God is omniscient, and is therefore able to know the end from the beginning. He also knows whether our love for Him is genuine, whether our confidence in Him will stand the test of time and also the outcomes of all our choices to that effect.

God Almighty already knows the eternal destiny of us all. He has the final analysis of each and every one of us for he spans time and eternity. 

One might be tempted to ask, "then why does He bother allowing us to go through all we go through while living on earth when all has been said and done?"

The fact is that we are not made to function like robots that are externally controlled to achieve specific directives but are intuitive beings, made in the image and likeness of God, to be free moral agents who have the ability to learn, know and ultimately choose what to do per time; chart the course of our lives and by so doing determine our eternal resting places. 

The truth is also that, we have the choice to do as we ought and not as we want. Mankind was created by God with a specific purpose of knowing Him, having a relationship with Him and drawing others to Him as well.

As long as you remain on earth with it's fallen systems your flesh, that is the human nature you were born with, will always be diametrically opposed to and at war with the Spirit of God that controls those who are in Christ Jesus, and it is your choices against your flesh and in favour of the dictates of God's spirit that will ultimately determine the quality of life you live and in the life hereafter, where you will spend eternity.

Are you having issues making better choices because of the inherent war being waged by your fleshly desires against your spirit?

No need to fret about it because someone like Apostle Paul also faced such challenges to the point that he was real enough to identify his dilemma and put it down so we could all relate to it, thus:

18. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 
19. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do---this I keep on doing. 
20. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 
21. So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 
22. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 
(Romans 7:18 to 22)

In Romans 7:23 to 25, the Apostle Paul continued his analogy by saying:

23. ... I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 
24. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 
25. Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Thanks be to God that he proffered Jesus Christ our Lord as the solution who can deliver us from the continuous personal war between our corrupted flesh and our regenerated spirit that we face on a daily basis.

As followers of Christ, we will always have to choose between good and evil while our transformed spirits inhabit our unregenerated fleshly covering.

We will always have to choose the promptings of the Spirit of God over the desires of our flesh, like Jesus did in Luke 22:42 when he said,“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”and trust that an angel from heaven will also appeare to us to strengthen us when we do, like God afforded Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our faith.

Shalom.