greenbaggins
Puritan Board Doctor
Jonathan Edwards has this to say on the human will:
What follows from this is that the believer needs to take care that what he finds most agreeable and pleasing is God's will. We must love what God loves and hate what God hates.
The choice of the mind never departs from that which, at that time, and with respect to the direct and immediate objects of that decision of the mind, appears most agreeable and pleasing, all things considered (Freedom of the Will, in the Yale Edwards, volume 1, p. 147).
What follows from this is that the believer needs to take care that what he finds most agreeable and pleasing is God's will. We must love what God loves and hate what God hates.
What I have found in my life is that many decisions, especially those that please The Lord, entail a lot of suffering. Of course I am sure Pastor Edwards has spoken about my thoughts, and has expressed them somewhere.
