Everything has happened just as I said it would; now I will announce what will happen next.
Isaiah 42:9 CEV
We have a God that has insight about our future. Not only does he care for our present, but our future is important to him. He cared about the future so much that He told Abraham that He would lead His descendants to a safe land. Now Abraham wouldn't even have a chance to look at the faces of these descendants yet God knows that the future is a concern of ours, so He cares for it. The future is adjustable, it can be altered by our response to the present. Though God predicts things, the future is not only predicated on His power but also on a humans response to the present. Example, Moses the prophet is assigned by Heaven to take the people of God into a future of milk & honey (abundance). Yet Moses and Gods people didn't walk into it fully, only the children ended up walking into it. Did God predict something incorrectly? Ofcourse not, Gods prediction to Abraham & Moses came true, through the children. This happened because the response of the next generation differed from the first generation. So are Gods predictions predicated on the response of Humans? Well yes, very much so, infact God would have no need to make predictions about humans if humans didn't exist. So does Gods word change on the basis of humans reaction? Ofcourse not, Gods predictions come with purpose but the purpose of His predictions are only unlocked where there is a genuine response.
So if we pay attention closely to many of the words & predictions of God, they contain large purpose but they also contain option's. Most predictions in God contain purpose & option. Providing a proposal of significance & free will all in one. Every word released in God must contain options, because He created man with the ability to choose. God is not an enforcer, He is an inviter. Every prediction & word is an invitation because He respects the authority of free will that He gave to Mankind.
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