Monday, October 09, 2006

Building Block 3: God's Strategy II

We see that God has provided a way for man to restore a relationship with Him. Because He intends it to be a love relationship, He gives man freedom to accept restoration, or to reject it.
Because it would negate the type of relationship He seeks to establish, God has ruled out some sort of force in the restoration process. So, he must promote in people, some sort of internal motivation for change. Man must come to believe/feel/consider his current situation with regards to God/the world/people to be intolerable, or at least inferior, to what his circumstances would be like if a change was made. Moreover, the change they need to make is a change of allegiance from “whatever” to the Father of All.
So, God seeks to create dissatisfaction with the status quo. Then, He must generate an attraction to a life lived in relationship with God.

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