Have You been Delivered from Freely Following Your Fallen Will?

© 2017 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

The will of any creature is free only to follow the dictates of its nature.  Scripture tells us that fallen man’s nature is dead, loving darkness rather than light.  Thus, any man allowed to continue exercising his fallen will, remains condemned.

 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19).

 A man abandoned to his fallen will, which serves his fallen nature, remains trapped, forever, by that fallen nature.

 “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil” (Jeremiah 13:23).

 No fallen man, leopard, or other creature ever aspires to a higher nature.  Only a miraculous intervention by God can change this.  Even our attempts to earn righteousness, by good works, displease God.  They reject Christ as our only source of righteousness.

But there’s good news!  God has chosen to “save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).  This redemption has been paid for, willingly, by Christ’s costly blood sacrifice.  It guarantees restoration of His people to spiritual life.  They shall be delivered from freely following their fallen wills only by God’s great power.

 “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, …” (Psalm 110:3).

God pictures this event as the replacement of a heart of stone with a heart of flesh.

 “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26).

Delivered from freely following their fallen wills, each of these chosen ones will then choose Christ as their only hope.

 “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37).

 Has God delivered you from the cage of your fallen will?  Has He caused your heart to desire His fellowship, and shun sin?  Have you asked Him to save you?  Is your faith in Christ, alone, who died and rose again to save His people from their sins?

If so, praise God for delivering you from freely following your fallen will!

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