I’m curious about how you would answer:
What decisions that you make are you responsible for?
And every decision I make is part of God's plan for His creation, ordained by Him from before the foundation of the world.
Now that's not an easy idea to wrap our brain around, but it is the truth as revealed in Scripture.
"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." -- Jeremiah 10:23
"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" -- Ephesians 1:11
"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that." -- James 4:14-15"The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD." -- Proverbs 16:33
Every person is responsible for all of his/her decisions.
What is significant is Paul’s passage to the Romans in which he laments the sinful nature that is part of his being.
He says “the things I want to do, I don’t; the things I don’t want to do, I do....who shall deliver me from this body...? I thank God for my Lord Jesus Christ.” (forgive the Romans 7 inaccuracies here, I’m going by memory.)
In short, Paul, at that time a Christian is lamenting the continued influence of the human nature. His answer to the human nature that lives inside each of us is NOT “Try Harder.” The answer is Jesus Christ and His grace and forgiveness.
This is why the apostle John also said, “If WE say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” He went on to say, “but if anyone sins WE have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”
Folks are not free to an intentionally sinful lifestyle; that is evidence that they are not elect. Yet, they are foolish if they don’t recognize the contaminating effects that their sinful human nature has on their lives even after their salvation. Residing in their flesh it can rear its ugly head at any moment.
We aren’t clean because we personally decide to do everything right.
We are always and forever clean because of the gracious sacrificial blood of our Lord Jesus.
Those who wish to make it on their own power are free to try. As for me, I willingly admit my absolute need for the crutch God has provided me.