The point of conscious living is to consider all three aspects of time: past, present, and future. You must use the experience of the past to understand where you are going in the future. Because the now moment is always the present, this can actually be discarded in the decision-making process. Focusing on the now moment only means we are focusing on
our own will, and is only important when we must be reminded of its
potency. Instead, focus on the future, whether it is the next week, day, or minute. Since there is a natural lag in time between choice and action, choice and action cannot happen at once. The choice is always a thing of the past when it is reached. The activity is always a thing of the future until done. Will is what connects the two together in seamless motion. The usage of will requires awareness of the individual’s placement in time and space. Without that awareness, stimuli automatically create guaranteed effects on the body and its surroundings. Without will in the present moment, causality rules all, and because that causality was triggered by the usage of some force of will previously, then the absence of consciousness is actually the state of being controlled by another.
Will stops the effects of past experience from automatically inducing choices for the future. You are instead able to create new ends and means that have no relation to the given variables introduced. Because we have surmised that conscious awareness of time means there is no true present (at least when observing behavior), only an unfolding future and a fleeing past, then the existence of will in the present means we are continuously acting because of it in the future. The absence of it means we are forced by the past into a particular future potential until the future potential of awareness is once again actualized. But nothing solely from the past can actualize such a potential in the future because such a scenario indicates that control is always given to another, and that the results of that control have already occurred. This tells us that the presence of will is absolute. It is either present or it is not, and that we cannot truly give up will or life with the power to pick it back up again. Without will, we must depend on another to grant it to us, often God in this case.
God can only create life from nothing. God can only reanimate the dead. God can only bring awareness to us, so that we may once again see our place in the unfolding timeline of nonstop doing. God must also sustain our will in the present moment forever, because will cannot come about from a lone action in the past. This implies being controlled by another's action, because we cannot choose to reject the offering of will since the will to do so would not be present until after it is gifted. Thus, for God to grant us free will, the gift must be given at the same time will exists. It must be given at all times once the conditions for it are appropriate. It is turned on and left on like a light switch, and this switch likely exists through the Father's personality circuit.
