People had been telling me "I made a choice" or "decided to turn my life around" and things like that and I always said "No, God did it. He saved me. He transformed me when I didn't want it."

It's right and correct to give the glory to God. However, even you are acknowledging that you have been given a unique skills set. What you do with that set will be guided and led by God, but only if you are willing, and only if you put Him in that central position. In my view.

I feel like, to establish a common wavelength, we'd have to share a lot more and in person.

You intense determination to give all the credit to him - is there anything wrong with that? A true heart knows that without God, I am nothing. The arrogant ignorant heart thinks, I neither need God nor is God important to me.

But prayer from another person still requires God to act so that doesn't change anything. He is still the one to save if that was the case.

It's statements like this that make me think we'd need a lot more interaction to establish a common wavelength in terms of thought. Because I cannot really understand what I've shared that might give you to imagine that I could possibly disagree with these statements. To me, they are obvious and a given. Yes, the saving of any life and soul requires God to act. He is the agent. And yes, God saves. However, in my view, this does not negate that what we choose to do or not do can affect and influence how and when God acts. Scripture seems pretty clear to me that we are exhorted to utilize our agency, granted by God.

I guess in the way I see things there is room for both God's greatness and also the responsibility and greatness in heart he wants me to aspire to. It's not one or the other. They are two sides of the same coin. Any ability or gift I have comes from God, so acknowledging them honors God, in my view.

But, let's put aside these things for a while. They are but reflections of our different paths to Him, our different paths in the here and now, and the different relationships we have with He who loves us beyond knowledge and wisdom.

Our two, varied and different views can thus be seen multiplying the Glory of God. For each child that returns to Him is like a new creation coming home.

I am grateful and encouraged by your testimony and by the way he has opened up your life and led you to the place(s) where you can multiply His goodness, and help so many others.

So, for a short time, let us put theology away, and glorify the Father whose love transcends all things, and who compassion knows no limits.

Thank you so much for sharing with me.

We are anons here, but I will tell you, my mother named me for one of the disciples. I don't know if we will encounter each other again, but I ask God to bless the path before you, to make the ground soft and supple beneath your feet, and to being joy into the hearts of those who are a part of your life.

Thank you Jesus. Amen, let it be so.