Gods Sabbath

C HAPTER 29

The Place for our Plans

Humans are not Robots T he burden of this book is to set God in His rightful place as Plan Maker, Problem Solver, Burden Bearer, and Source, in a balanced way. However, some practical minds might conclude that if the arguments thus far are correct, then we are reduced to mere automatons with little freedom to think, plan, or orga nize for ourselves. Yet God’s truths are both balanced and consistent. The Lord has built certain abilities into us which are subject to the highest de velopment, and these are to be used in their proper time and place.

We are not robots. We are highly intelli gent beings capable of making decisions and well able to organize our own activi ties. God did not endow us with these abilities in order to deny their exercise— on the contrary, He gifted them to us for a specific purpose. Our problem is that we do not know our limitations, or understand the sphere in which we are to work, with the result that we intrude into the realm belonging

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