We all seem to want this, even think we have a right to it. We have "free will", but it is only a narrow freedom between available choices. We are not free to be millionaires unless circumstances offer it, which they rarely do. We are not free to love those we want to love, thought every movie tells us differently. We are not free to have a skill we don't possess. If we are hurt we cannot choose healing. If we are enslaved we cannot choose freedom.
This seems like such an obvious fallacy in the thinking of secular culture that I don't understand why they don't see it. I heard a commercial last week that started with this quote, "being young and beautiful is lucky, being old and beautiful is art." I thought, sure, okay, then it's followed up with, "come get plastic surgery." As if anyone on earth believes plastic surgery makes people look beautiful, except maybe the fools who get it. Nature tends towards entropy, always the ordered towards disorder. We have no control.
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey?* This is such simplicity you'd think it wouldn't need to be said. It is countered by the idea of "Luck"; bad luck or good luck is what prevents or enables us to get what we want. It's funny how pretty much everyone believes in luck, an intangible force that orders their lives without anyone's consent. I wonder why that is so easy to believe? There clearly is an intangible force at work, and yet perhaps not as intangible as some think. Perhaps it, or He wants to interact with those under his dominion.
It's nice to be free of decisions and circumstances, knowing that one's desires are heard and then focusing solely on obedience. There are worse options than obedience to God, in fact, there are none better.
*Romans 6:16
