Are you a puppet? Of course we do not want to think that we are a puppet, we have free will, and decide our own future, our own actions. We are not controlled by anyone or anything!
I am my own person and that is that! No one tell me what to do or how to do it.
Well last night a read a book about how free will is an illusion and we are all actually making decisions based on our genes, our upbringing, our life to this point, so therefore we are really not in control of our actions. Not sure I believe everything I read but the author made nice logical arguments. But am I really in control of my life? Of my decisions?
One could say yes, you are in control, and you can decide what to do. But I want us to think about how nice it is to be a puppet, as long as we are controlled by the right source…
You see in John 12:44-50 Jesus talks about how the things He says are not His own, and whoever who sees Him sees not Him but thee one who sent Him, and He is a light that points to something greater. He is the light to illume this dark world, because He does not do anything but what He is told to do. Jesus is was a puppet, under the control of the Father. Now do not crucify me for saying Jesus was a puppet. He did what the Father wanted Him to do even when He may not have wanted to, remember the garden where He asked the Father to remove the cup from Him? He may not have wanted to do all that He was told to do (this ring true with me too!!!), but He knew that what the Father wanted was the best. So He did not question, and did as He was told, or knew He had to.
So take control of your life by handing the strings over to your creator and let Him guide you and control you through life. Doing what He leads you to, as you know that it is the best thing to do and be a puppet like Jesus.
aSacredRebel 
Greetings! I’m not here to crucify you because I enjoyed your post.
But I have been thinking a lot lately about the will of God in our lives (and just posted about it earlier today) and so what you said struck a chord with me.
I fully believe that God has a will – a desire – for our lives but I also think we are creative beings, just like God (made in the image and likeness of God) and that God’s will is not separate from our own will.
Jesus did the will of God, but by choice. In the garden he struggled, but he made the choice to reconnect to the will of God. How could a puppet ask for the cup to be removed from him? Asking suggests he had a choice and shows that Jesus himself believed this.
To me, Jesus was a supreme example of what it means to live according to God’s will but he was not a man without choices.
Just my thoughts 🙂
I agree with you, that he had the choice to do what He wanted. I do think He had choices and made thhem based on what He knew. But I’m trying to rework the undrstanding of puppet to be good and not bad. He had chooices but wanted to do what God wanted Him to do… Not exactly what I said, but I did not want to give it away…
Interesting blog. The human brain takes in 11,000,000 bits of information at any given time, of which we are aware of 40. In other words, most of our lives reside at the subconscious level. Do we have free will and control? To quote Luther, “yes, but it is an enslaved free will.” Assumptions that hold us control our decision-making much more than we often dare admit. Paul said it well, “the good that I want to do I don’t do!”. Classic enslaved free will. Because of mirror neurons, our brains mimic everything (at least at the molecular level). It’s only our frontal lobes controlling our impulses that prevents us from acting out everything. To quote David Brooks, we have “free won’t” more than we have “free will”.