"Only two choices on the shelf..."

"The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, [...] as I have purposed, so shall it stand...This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth...For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?" Isaiah 14:24-27

After all the effort I make to stress the mysterious communion of freewill and sovereignty, how we do not lose our freewill in God's sovereignty, let us not make the opposite mistake, i.e., lose God's sovereignty in our freewill. They both exist, and both affect the course of our lives.

It has been asserted before on this blog that God's sovereignty and man's freewill work hand in hand because when God created the world, His omnipotence allowed Him to know how all things would come to pass, so that then He could plan His purpose through the events that followed (see Romans 8:29; first He knew, then He planned). Your decisions still decide your destiny, because God did not make the choices for you: He works within the choices you have made and will make. You are not free from your responsibility as a moral agent.

However, this "working within" of God, though it does not make our choices for us, it is unalterable, unannulable, and unchangeable. This is something we must not forget. When it comes to the will of God (whether it be His permissive will or His actual order), there are only two choices: bend to it, or be broken by it. To go with God's will is life; to go against it is your choice to make, but it will mean death. God's sovereignty means that we are free to choose, but that we only have two choices: life or death. From the trees in the garden of Eden, to Old Testament times (Deuteronomy 30:19), and to the time of Christ (John 3:16-19), it has always been the same two choices, and always will be.