Why So Much Suffering? - HOW WILL YOU USE THE GIFT OF FREE WILL?

Jehovah's wonderful gift of free will makes us very different from the animals.  They mainly act on instinct, but we can choose how we want to live our lives and decide whether we want to please Jehovah.  (Proverbs 30:24) Also, we are not like machine that do only what they are made to do.  We have the freedom to make choices about what we want to be, who we want as our friends, and what we want to do with our live.  Jehovah wants us to enjoy life.

Jehovah wants us to love him. (Matthew 22:37, 38)   He is like a father who is happy to hear his child say "I love you."  When the child says it from his heart and not because he is forced to.  Jehovah gave us the freedom to choose whether to serve him or not. Satan, Adam, and Eve chose to reject Jehovah.  How will you use the gift of free will?

Use your free will to serve Jehovah.  There are millions of others who have decided to please God and to reject Satan. (Proverbs 27:11)  What can you do now so that you will be there in God's new world when he removes all suffering?  The next chapter will answer that question.

Next time: How Can You Become God's Friend?

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