What if it's All Part of the Plan?

      My husband has often asked me a question that I have struggled to answer for awhile. He would ask 'if God knows everything, then he knew Adam and Eve were going to fall from grace, so why didn't He just stop it from happening, why did He allow this happen to this world? Why didn't He just not give us free will?"
       I've never known quite how to answer this question, I see his point and have wondered the same thing myself many times. Then this morning as I was praying I was struck with the thought, what if it was always about the choice? What if the point of allowing all this to happen was to find those individuals who were willing to give their whole hearts to God, those who would love Him first, purely even in their impurity? Those who could recognize their need for Him and desired so strongly to reside in paradise with Him that they would forsake the temptations of this world? Could it possibly be that He has allowed Satan to run wild in this world to find those who are righteous and will love Him purely and for all eternity?
       I am not saying this was divine inspiration or anything like that, but this kind of makes sense to me. It seems to fit with God I read about and am coming to know more everyday. It seems to me that all those who are looked up to in the Bible had one thing in common, a deep, passionate love for God that led them to either obedience or repentance in times of disobedience. But male or female it was their love and unrelenting faith for Him that got God's attention.
      I don't have all the answers, and I don't know that I'm right, I'm human and  I get stuff wrong all the time, but like I said this makes sense to me. Pray about it and ask the Father if it makes sense to you too. Seek His wisdom, and allow Him to lead you to the answers you desire.

Romans 9:19-26

19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”  21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

  25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;

and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,

‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”