Mr Rogers already answered this far, FAR better than I can, so I'm going to quote him.
Do you know how silly this sounds? God has a plan for this world that includes the works He has ordained for us, but if we do not do them no big deal.. What if Mary had said NO? What Paul had said no? What if Peter had walked away? More to the point..what if Judas had changed his mind and never went to the Jewish leaders?? Gods whole plan of salvation would have come to naught .
To say that God has a plan for you, but you can veto it makes you god not God.
To Mr Rogers, The grace of God precedes His work in us, it changes our mind and our will and we then will to be His and to be obedient to Him. We do need to obey, we do exercise our will in what we do, but it is Gods grace that lines our will with His.. The reprobate follows his will as well, and his will ,will always love his sin and deny the God of scripture..he is following the will of the natural man and is incapable of following the will of God without an intervention of the Holy Spirit .
How do you get that?? God is not subject to any action of our will — nothing we do can affect HIM. Actions of our will affect US.
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Ahhhhhhhhh Really?
I think you have a different Bible.
My Bible tells me that Moses changed God’s mind.
And
That Jesus was touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
There are other Scriptures indicating that the above assertion is plainly false and at best grossly oversimplified.
It is part of the magnamimous mystery of The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that HE INVITES US INTO HIS REALM . . . TO CARE FOR US AS CHILDREN, INDEED, AS FRIENDS, . . . AND TO BE RESPONSIVE TO EVEN OUR PRAYERS AND THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF OUR HEARTS . . . EVEN TO THE POINT OF GIVING US the desires of our hearts when our soul is fixed on Him.
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH US IS A DANCE.
One doesn’t dance with robots . . . except in a comedy show or a sci-fi horror film.