The logical conclusion emerging from this understanding is that God orchestrates all things for the ultimate good of those who love Him. He is both the ultimate cause behind our efforts and the divine purpose toward which all outcomes tend. As believers draw closer to this divine cause—aligning their lives with His divine plan—they move into greater harmony with His intentions; conversely, the farther they stray from this divine alignment, the more their actions diverge from His intended purpose. Recognizing this, it becomes essential to understand that there is a meaningful purpose embedded within the cosmos and within our individual choices. Our preferences—why we desire one thing over another—are rooted in reasons that reflect deeper causes, such as our innate desires being stronger for certain outcomes. These desires are ultimately rooted in the divine cause—namely, our new life in Christ—who serves as the ultimate source of our transformation and renewed purpose. The more we seek to experience God's presence through His Word, the more intentionally we will choose to do good and actively pursue our salvation, aligning ourselves with His divine will. This understanding aligns closely with the biblical view of God's work within the believer’s life. It emphasizes that divine influence and human involvement are intertwined, mutually shaping each other in a dynamic relationship. Human efforts and decisions are responses to God's divine initiative, which sustains and guides them. To portray ourselves as having a self-determining will equal to God's is a misunderstanding of this relationship. Such a view presupposes an autonomous self—an independent source of identity and action—that competes with or challenges God's sovereignty. In contrast, Scripture teaches that true self-identity and agency are rooted in God's divine cause; human actions are responses to His initiative, not independent acts originating apart from Him. Modern interpretations often distort this relationship by presupposing an autonomous dynamic—that human actions are entirely independent of God's influence, and that humans act to fulfill their own purposes rather than God's. This perspective suggests that human efforts are self-directed and that God's commands are simply responses to human initiative. Under this view, humanity is portrayed as an autonomous agent, with God relegated to a secondary role as merely enforcing external commands. Such a perspective diminishes the sovereignty of God, elevating human autonomy to a level that undermines biblical truth about divine providence and divine-human partnership. Recognizing the biblical view requires acknowledging that God's sovereignty encompasses and sustains all aspects of existence, and that human actions are ultimately responses within His divine plan. This understanding fosters humility, dependence on God's grace, and a recognition that our true purpose is rooted in aligning ourselves with His divine will rather than asserting independent control over our lives. The universe itself functions entirely within a framework of causality, having been created by God. This act of creation provides the foundational explanation for its very existence. Through His creative act, God reveals and defines His nature, establishing the principles by which the universe operates. While certain aspects of the physical universe follow this cause-and-effect principle naturally and necessarily—integral to the very functioning of creation—this causal paradigm also extends to moral judgments. Moral decisions and judgments are embedded within the sequence of events that govern both the physical universe and human decisions, illustrating that morality is not arbitrary but rooted in divine order. To deny the existence of causality across all moments—whether physical or moral—is to adopt an illogical and inconsistent view of reality, one that neglects the coherence and rationality embedded in God's creation.