The very first instruction of God recorded in the Bible is found in Genesis 1:3, “Then God said, ‘Let there be light.'” Imagine for a moment that God had given light the freedom to make its own choices. When God said, “Let there be light,” would it bother you if the very next statement said, “But light was too busy at the moment”? Or, “But light just wasn’t ‘feelin’ it’ right then”? Or, “While light had good intentions, it ultimately decided there were other things more important”?
Back in the realm of reality, we know that light was not given free will. We know that when God said, “Let there be light,” that the very next statement said, “and there was light.” Light didn’t have a choice. It did what God told it to do.
Rather than “flex” our free will or allow it to “make excuses” for us, what if we were like light? What if, when God told us to do something, the very next statement could be, “and it was done”? We can learn a lot from the very first instruction of God in the Bible!