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November 2021 Our Free Will
Our free will can stop or obstruct the course of
God’s inspiration. When the favorable wind of God’s grace fills the sails of
our soul, it is within our power to refuse consent, thereby impeding the effect
of that favoring wind. But when our spirit sails along and makes a prosperous
voyage, it is not we who cause the wind of inspiration to come to us. We
neither fill our sails with it, nor do we give movement to the ship that is our
heart: we consent to its movement. It is God’s inspiration, then, which impresses
on our free will the gentle, blessed influence whereby it not only causes the
will to see the beauty of the good, but also warms it, helps it, reinforces it
and moves it so gently that by its agency, the will turns and glides freely
toward the good.
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