The prompters of action welling up in the human soul are many: it can be our thoughts, our whims, our desires, our instinctive urges, our random impulses, our subconscious drives erupting and tempting us, our conscious orientation to the world as selfless or self-regarding persons, our sentiments, our creative urges, our destructive urges, our loving urges and our hateful temptation, our divine impulses and our demonic impulses.
There are many of these factors launching us into action, and they are acted out by us in two separate and distinct categories: one we freely choose to complete an urge to the degree that our will is free. We obey the selected dictum propelling us into action to the degree that our will to act is not our own.
In these two paragraphs, listed are a lot of conflicting, competing, overlapping, boundaried, consistent and contradictory drivers that launch us into action. What is of primary significance and importance to capture is that what our mental directive for acting is, the corresponding action will follow once we decide to act upon the driving trigger.
We just want to make sure that the selected course of action is consistent with our goal to be morally and spiritually good, negatively, not damaging God's cause, and positively, actively advances God's cause.
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