What's God's Plan?

Question

I was curious about the expression that "God has a plan for your life". Generally when bad things happen, it's said that God has a plan for you. Who does god plan for?

Do you believe that someone who spends his life in and out of prison, murders someone and then is executed himself is "god's plan"? If not, why does god have a plan for some people and not others?

If you over eat horrible food, never excersise, treat your body badly and smoke, then get cancer, is that god's plan? It seems more like cause and effect to me. What parts of your life does god plan for, and where is your personal responsibility in your own life come in to play?

Answer 1

God does have a plan in the larger context of existence. Even the most naive and stupid person does not do anything without intention or purpose. How can the MOST DIVINE the CREATOR OF WISDOM do things arbitrarily and without purpose?

However, from our little crevice deep within the bowels of an underground well, we are unable to see the splendor of the rising sun, and we may wonder why the ants are killing the little bug that made the wrong turn in the line of the marching ants.

Know it that FREE WILL rises and lowers people. The most evil of men at times have had a complete turn of heart, and they have turned into good people. People have been given the option to enjoy the terrace or fall off the roof and break their bones. If someone breaks their bone due to that freedom, why should the rest who are enjoying the beautiful view from the terrace be denied access to the roof terrace?

No one is compelled to do evil by the MOST HIGH. People are given free will, within the limits of the Divine Will. If the evil ones could have unlimited power, we would all be ruled by the Pharoahs and the Hitlers. In reality all Hitlers and all Pharoahs are given only a limited amount of freedom to abuse and then WHAM falls the axe of the LORD, and saves the innocent from their clutches. WHEN these evil ones are active, remember that their evil is causing the good people to herd and run and cling to the LORD spiritually. Even though the Pharoah did not mean it, but his excesses did turn many an Israelite to cry out to the HOLY ONE and thus connected with Him Almighty.

Imagine the helplessness the slaves must have felt from a man who had the power to build pyramids!! YET, they did not give up hope. Under the lashes of the slave masters they cried out to the HOLY ONE, who did send them a savior in the form of Moses. In a way the slavemasters lashes did play a role in the Lord sending Moses and freedom to the slaves.

So, look at the negatives and positives in balance. True the one that is being lashed is concerned immediately with the pain of the current situation, and may not have the inclination to philosophize or to understand the larger picture. But, his pain did deliver him in the end, did it not? Had they not been lashed, they would not have cried out to the HOLY ONE.

Also... remember you can cling to the HOLY ONE even though you are not being lashed. If the entire World would turn to HIM, we will truly have heaven on Earth.

BUT the Good have to be strong and wise and peaceful and when necessary violent against the evil and violent ones, but only as a last resort. When people will adopt the values the Lord wants us to adopt, we will see heaven on Earth.

I hope this makes sense.

Answer 2

Ok. God has a plan and individual purpose for every person's life. We can choose to accept and follow that plan, or we can choose to ignore it.

Many people do not know what their plan and purpose is, you can only discover the real plans God has for you by developing a personal relationship with God through Jesus.

God's purpose for one person might be as simple as that person praying every night for certain people (because faith-filled prayer brings about positive change), while someone elses God-given plan/purpose might be to become a politician and lead other politicians to God, so that the country's laws and happenings are more Godly. Either way, both of these purposes mentioned would be just as important as the other in God's eyes. Some people have big purposes, others have smaller ones, some people may have one main purpose, others may have several purposes. They're all as important as the next.

Treating your body badly is not part of God's plan. A person does this of their own will. It is God's will that everyone looks after themselves, so they can be fit and healthy to help others and carry out God's plans.

When people commit sins such as murder or whatever, no this is not part of God's plan. It's part of satans plans. Satan will try and influence people into doing evil things so that they don't do God's will. Nothing bad that people do is GOd's will. God's will/plans for people are ALWAYS good.

The more you get to know God and His will (which can be done through prayer and reading the Bible), the more you will discover GOd's great plans and purposes for your life.

Thanks for the question. Bless y'all.

Answer 3

You started out the question VERY WELL!!
The expression that "God has a plan for your life"
That expression is used very loosely in the wrong context; when bad things happen.

GOD does NOT act wickedly --- Please read Job 34:10-12
GOD IS LOVE!!

So, when people use that expression, its not God's plan. God provided the Bible for people all around the world to get to know Him. To serve Him and know about his Kingdom to come. He's will to be done, on EARTH and Heaven!! To have a chance of everlasting life on a Paradise earth by exercising faith in him as well as his only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

I'll end it by saying granted, God does allow bad things to happen. But there is a big difference between allowing something to happen and Causing it!!

Answer 4

As you noticed, there is no such thing as a "gods plan" for anyone. No reasonable Deity could let the suffering go on if they had the power to stop it.
This is one more way to recognize that there is no real god. You don't need a god any more than you need the tooth-fairy.

Now go form a plan for your own life that will bring you happiness and success, and eliminate as much of the unpleasant things as you can.

Answer 5

God originally had a plan. The plan was magnificent and lasted for six days. And God saw that it was good, and He rested. And then He created Man in His image and gave Man freedom of choice. And then Man had other plans, because Man was created with the ability to make plans.

Since then, God's plans are on-the-fly and grandiose in scale. So unless a miracle is happening, these trifles in life are no plan of God's. They are the plans of Man, and God usually doesn't intervene. So unless you see Las Vegas turn to salt, frogs falling from the sky, or manna from the heavens - we're on our own, kid.

Answer 6

God's plan is to annoy me to death by filling the world with stupid Christians who know nothing about their own religion save they think gay people are bad and women shouldn't have the right to control their own bodies. Why they think these things is what the Catholics refer to as a "mystery", because the New Testament doesn't have anything to say on either matter and they ignore everything written in the Old Testament, unless they can use it to justify hating people. Oh, and did I mention that in the Christian mindset, to love someone really means to hate and oppress them? Christians have a hard time with language too.

Answer 7

God has a plan for your life. If you don't get with the program(so to speak). Then you aren't living out God's plan for your life. Like Adam and Eve. The perfect plan would have been for them to live in perfect harmony in the garden that had everything. But they screwed it up so they lost their chance for that perfection.

This is oversimplified a bit so don't take the analogy too far. You can always repent and get with the plan, in your life.

Answer 8

God does not have a plan for our life
We make the plan to pay back Karma from our past lives
In meditation we can connect to God via our Higher Self
We are the ones that have free will and choices
How we use our choices can and will effect our lives.
Take this into thought if in a past life if I where a rapist do you think it possible to have to come back and pay back that karma by being a victim?
If in a past life if I had our house ransacked and all my valuable possession stolen that I may have came back into this life to be a thief and steal back from others that stole from me in a past life ?
And so on, reverse how the person is suffering and try to see how they may have lived a past life, what harsh crime they may have committed or how they may have been a victim.
We are all here to benefit in our spiritual growth on a earthly plan.
Some food for your mind to throw around and see how you think then.
We all are here to learn Acceptance, Compassion, Unconditional love, Detachment, Letting go and to Forgive.
And yes it does come down to Personal Responsibility a lot of people would rather blame God for letting them down them to blame themselves for letting them self down.

Love & Blessings
milly

Answer 9

From what I gather out my studies of the Good book, God's plan is to create a new Heaven and a New Earth. God gave us the opportunity to be the best that we can be. I don't think He plans for any one of us to be any certain way. He just gives us all the same opportunity to make our life the best it can be if we follow His Word. He gave us the freedom of choice. He gives us the gift of life with it. What we do with that gift is up to us.

Answer 10

yes God has a plan for each and every one of us but we have something called free will. God may have put some person in prison for a purpose or, the person just got in prison by his own fault.

and second of all... dont blame ur bad diet and poor exercise and all that stuf thats controlled by YOU on God. you know wat.. maybe it is becus u are complaining way too much. mayb God wants you to learn something from this question.

God planned my life and there have been bad times and good times. someitmes i do blame God but now i totally regret doing that cus it was my fault. yes.. lots of good timesssss =]

yes!!! presonal responisiblity just answered the first part of ur 3rd paragraph. thank you and goodbye.