21. What is actually within man’s control?

Natural laws will always remain as God has ordained them. These are laws which God has defined. They are every physical law known to man, and man cannot alter them. What a human being does have is the freedom of choice. This is our test. For example, a person cannot change the natural laws governing water. But he can choose whether or not to drink water. It is not within a person’s control to remove the cloud between him and the sun, but he would be held accountable for the choices he made in life, something entirely in his control.