Fundamentally You Cannot Control Anything
Because you cannot actually control people. Ever.
You cannot lead people to life change. You can only take them down the road.
Because in the end only a person can choose, when they have reached the end of whatever road they are on and clinging too.
You cannot force a person to change. Period.
This is the cornerstone of free will.
You can give people info. They won’t change.
You gave give people love. They won’t change.
They won’t change until they want to. Not have to. But want to.
Sure sometimes people want to because they have to. But even then it's still when they want to.
This is at the core.
And explains why god pays attention to our motives, not just our actions.
Disclaimer: The image at the top is not drawn by me. It is an AI generated image using Grok on X.com