THE GREAT IMPOSITION



Little do we realize just how powerful we are as "chips off the old block”.  When it was stated that we were created in GOD’s image, it meant just that, except, the concept goes right over our heads (mind).


All that GOD creates is just like HIM/HER/IT-SELF (that should cover all the bases)--the like-begets-like principle.  There are those who will take stock of the world and interpret that GOD must be pretty dysfunctional, but that is a discussion for another day.  We wish to focus here strictly on the concept of free will.


We don’t realize what a can-of-worms this whole “free will” thing really is.  We didn’t even have a choice as to whether or not to have one.  It was actually imposed on us in our creation--the great imposition.  Let’s look at the ramifications of this in the Prodigal Parable.


You will notice that there was no cajoling or arguing by the father to dissuade his son about his travel plans--he probably even helped him pack.  The father financed the trip, walked him to the door, and probably said, “Have fun.”  It was the free will given to the son, and not violated by the father, that sent him on his way.


Let’s now address the son’s misadventure.  You will find no effort on the part of the father to interject himself in any way in helping, hindering, or persuading his son to abandon ship and return home.  Whatever the son wished to do (and later wished he didn’t), he was free to experience, completely free of the father’s influence.  When he finally realized he was on the vacation-from-h*ll, he also decided, free of any outside influence, to change his reservations and fly home early.  Free to go, free to return--free will all around.


Upon his return, he was welcomed back with open arms (apart from the comment that he looked like h*ll), pimped out in new robes, and lead straight to the barbeque.  When he tried to apologize for freely going, the father corrected him by saying, “What the h*ll--you freely returned.  Let’s party!”


What does this tell us?  The imposition of free will that was imposed upon us in our creation is something that is inviolable by GOD.  Even HE/SHE/IT won’t go there.  Where does that leave us--completely responsible for our vacation plans.

Little do we realize that:


The world is not happening to us.
OUR world is happening to us.


We hope you weren't looking for someone else to blame. . .