What Is Free Agency?

          I realized one of the major stumbling blocks, especially for LDS members to get over, is that of FREE AGENCY. It is supposed that free agency is inviolate. That God will never require us to lose our agency. But is that really the case? Man was given his agency in the Garden of Eden. That means that its purpose was intended for this earth life alone.
          It is further supposed that only Satan desires to keep man from free agency. That it was his plan to deny man their agency from the beginning. In point this is true. However, the difference between the plan of Satan and that of Christ was that Christ allows men their agency to choose and Satan would not allow it. And yet the gospel requires us to submit all our heart, might, mind and strength unto God to take upon us the name of Jesus Christ. What becomes of free agency after making such an acceptable sacrifice? It is gone!
          This means that we are required to lay down our free agency as an acceptable sacrifice of a contrite spirit and a broken heart. To enter into the kingdom of God where it is HIS will that is done and not our own how could it be otherwise than that we forsake our own free will to become subject to the name of Jesus Christ and have rights with God in his kingdom, or in other words righteousness. We become the sons and daughters of God when our will is swallowed up in the will of Christ just as his will was subject to that of his Father.
          So it is this that makes the proud stumble and the stubborn rebel against the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is why they invent another gospel that is pleasing to the carnal mind. That mind is full of pride and self will and wants to be free. To enter a kingdom and become its citizen you must submit to the dictates of the King.
This is what needs to be repented of. Sins too, of course, but the natural man's free will must be placed upon the alter for God to savor a sweet sacrifice that is meet for his kingdom. And of course it required the utmost faith in Jesus Christ, that he is a righteous judge and will always command that which is for our good. That is where faith in Jesus Christ is put to the test. Do we trust him with our agency all in all. Well? Do we?
          And what of those who are made partakers of the heavenly gift, even the powers of God's regeneration and turn from it and become self willed and anger and blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, putting Christ to an open shame? Perdition awaits where all are  forced to partake of the second dearth.  So the free agency of man would be serious liability to keep under such a threat. Better to use it for what it was intended and that is an acceptable sacrifice.
          After we receive the gospel and are wrought upon and cleansed it is a constant dynamic to keep ourselves  perfect in Christ by our continual subjection against our own free will. God does not remove free agency from us. It is however, always required of us to submit. Thus we worship God and his Christ forever with a vitality that is never stale or rote. The gift of God in bestowing upon us free agency and our submitting of that agency unto God, by faith, turns all the love turbines of eternity and keeps spiritual entropy form having any claim upon us. This is really good stuff that makes alive and vital our love of God and even that of our neighbors as ourselves. Rejoice that you can partake in such eternal dynamics and live in a fullness of joy.