I see you made a choice. :-)
As God directed.
Men can and do make choices, such as choosing what clothes to wear, what to have for dinner, what stocks to invest in, etc.
However, due to Adam's fall whereby sin entered the world and so twisted the will of man towards slavery to sin, succumbing man to total depravity, man, of his own will, of his own nature being a sinful nature, has not the ability within himself to consistently choose good, nor has the ability to choose God, who is Good.
Jeremiah 17:9; "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
It takes God regenerating the will of man with a bent towards God, through the gift of a new heart by God before man can freely choose God.
Jeremiah 32:
38They shall be My people, and I will be their God; 39then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.
Men can and do make choices, such as choosing what clothes to wear, what to have for dinner, what stocks to invest in, etc.
However, due to Adam's fall whereby sin entered the world and so twisted the will of man towards slavery to sin, succumbing man to total depravity, man, of his own will, of his own nature being a sinful nature, has not the ability within himself to consistently choose good, nor has the ability to choose God, who is Good.
Jeremiah 17:9; "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
It takes God regenerating the will of man with a bent towards God, through the gift of a new heart by God before man can freely choose God.
Jeremiah 32:
38They shall be My people, and I will be their God; 39then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.