Christian Living

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Free Will and Suffering.

Human being has faculties both mental and physical.
The organs, the senses, the intellect that makes all that is social.
Imagine the man with no free will to make choices in life.
It will be a vegetable or robot with no responsibility and spice.

The thrill of life is being able to make choices.
Unknown to many the will it is that makes all choices.
Use free will and then reap what you sow with clarity
Then will you know that what happened is not fatality.

It is the free willed choice that earns your due reward.
For if it wasn’t willed with sacrifice, what use of that award
Use your will righteously at all times
For your reward awaits you when the last bell chimes

To the individual using free will in accordance with that of the Maker
Suffering is minimal and with good conscience life is made easier.
Where-they ask is the Maker’s justice when the world is full of suffering.
The free will collectively misplaced brings universal misery unending.

Why blame the Maker if free will is not righteous on every choice?
Suffering will follow each decision adding to the woes of the vice.
Take the child in the womb willed to distort and end life,
But struggles to survive-be born deformed-continue to pass on in style.

The mothers had free will to choose and avoid the debacle
And even before that-to avoid pleasure beyond rhythmic cycle.
Suffering will continue with free will not righteously used.
Don’t blame the Maker-with no free will the final reward cannot be abused.

Collective free will shouted crucify-crucify to Christ
This collective psyche with un-righteous will paid a future price
For Christ said-weep not for me but for generations to come,
Implying wrong use of will has collective repercussions as humanity is one.

Oscar E V Fernando
(Retired Director Finance/Administration/Board Member Sri Lanka Foundation/Member Human rights task Force.)

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