by Zachariah Langley

Created on: August 25, 2010   Last Updated: August 26, 2010

The thing is folks, you don't have a choice in this life on anything you do. We ride on the rails of a roller coaster called perspective where our hands are raised and we are most certainly not in control, and if you think you are, explain all the tragedy not only in your life but the lives of others. Did you choose to lose a loved one or have your best friend taken in the prime of their lives? No, God brought that loved one into the arms of the aether to show you who's running the show and that it's not tragedy to die, because we're all going to have to do it one day. Remember, it's not a matter of "if" but the "how" and "when" that scares the crap out of us.

Albert Einstein, the "rock and roll" father of modern physics and quantum theory wrote Mein Glaubensbekenntnis (My Credo) in 1932 and had this to give as an insight:

'I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.'

If Einstein doesn't rock your free will boat, then maybe God can. Just read throughout the Bible and all of the text that read God's will, but the text that gets me is from Luke 22:42 that says, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done." This belief isn't just in Christianity but other major religions like Islam that believe in "submission and surrender" and the Hukam, a Punjabi word meaning "command" or "order" and is the primary concept of Sikhism that believes, "The whole of the Universe is subject to the Hukam of the Creator God. Nothing ever happens without the Will of Him." It might be that Lucifer came from the thought of thinking we could somehow make it around the will of God to put forward our own will, or not.

What we all have to realize is that there is a very clear, very set path that we get glimpses of every once in a while, but just usually hides along the road we have to take, and no matter what road it might be.. it all ends in the same way. We were never meant to be the driver, and supplication serves as a vent for our own frustrations and wants, not the wants of our Father. Reminds me of a song I heard a while back called The Soft Parade; "When I was back there in seminary school, there was a person there who put forth the proposition, that you can petition the Lord with prayer. Petition the lord with prayer, petition the lord with prayer. You cannot petition the lord with prayer!"

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life."

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