Emotions

We feel and express various emotions because we were created in God's image. God is not impersonal. Being created in His image the emotions we experience are the same as emotions that God experiences. The Bible is clear that not only does He love us; He feels other emotions towards us. God gets disappointed and angry with us. God weeps with sorrow with us (and for us) and I'm sure He laughs with joy with us (and probably at us too).

It is my firm conviction that if it was predetermined who was going to hell and who was going to heaven and if all our actions were predetermined God's emotion towards us would be bored indifference. It's impossible to love, hate, feel sorrow for, or laugh with joy with someone who does what he does because of a preprogrammed action.

Maybe a good analogy would be when I use to play computer games they were fun, exiting and challenging. Then one day a friend showed me how to find secret cheat codes on the Internet that pretty much made me invincible and showed me every hidden thing I needed. That was pretty neat... for about 30 minutes. Then computer games just became a boring waste of time for me and I lost interest in them.

Luckily for us God is interested in us and our lives and wants to be involved. That interest and involvement goes beyond creating us, causing us to do this or that and then killing us off and sending us to a predetermined place (heaven or hell). God wants a relationship with us, that's precisely why He created us. He wants to help us and He wants us to desire and covet His help. God wants that from everyone, not just a certain few.

http://www.freewill-predestination.com/