Negotiations with God

Negotiations with God

I was watching a TikTok, and this wonderful guy was explaining something about being gay and its relation to Sodom and Gomorrah. His handle is @jess@happyqueerman.

There was a part where he said that God had already sent His angels to destroy the city, yet He still let Abraham negotiate. That made me realize something: God will entertain us when we negotiate with Him. Not because He’s autocratic or doesn’t care about our wants, but because He knows the past, present, and future, and He knows us. We are literally His creation.

He gave us those unique characteristics and desires. He made everyone with their own design. So of course He’s going to know what we actually need and what we genuinely want.

We’re human in a corrupted world, and we’re bound to be tempted by our flesh. It distorts our view a little. That’s what the devil does—he distorts your view.

But at the end of the day, because God created us, He knows what is good for us in the long run. He sets things up and lets us negotiate about the things we think we want.

God is such a loving Father. He could simply forbid us and tell us that He knows better, and we would be bound to His will. But instead, when He tries to talk us out of something we’re not supposed to be doing and we try to negotiate, He lets us. He allows us to learn the lessons ourselves.

And whenever we realize we were wrong, He never uses it against us or says, “I told you so.” He comforts us. He heals what we broke and makes it His mission to guard us safely for as long as we rely on Him.

And He knows that eventually we’ll see it His way. We’ll be happier and so grateful for His plan that our own plan will look foolish in comparison.

Back then, in the story, God knew there was no righteous man in Sodom and Gomorrah, yet He still let Abraham argue his point. He values the relationship.

I always say our mission here is simply to find God and let Him direct our path. Everything else is secondary. God literally tells us, “Seek first the kingdom of God, and all other things shall be added unto you.”

God made us, and He made us with free will so we wouldn’t be like the angels. He made us delicate—His most precious creation—and He didn’t want us to be eternally bound to Him the way the angels are. He wanted us to choose Him willingly.

That’s why there was the tree in the garden: to offer us another option, in hopes that we would choose Him.

Jesus came to die the death that was spoken about when Adam ate the fruit and lost his blessing. All we have to do is seek God, because Jesus has built the bridge. Now we have access to God again, like in the garden.

The salvation is there, but we still have to willingly choose that salvation.

And in the end, if we do choose God, our will will eventually align with His. We’ll realize there’s no point in negotiating, because He truly knows what’s best. When He says something, that’s what’s best.

Out of everything He created, we are what’s most precious to Him.

Isn’t that something?