I am a religious person.. yet sometimes I have difficulties accpeting God's will. Can any one Help?

Answer 1

1: don't listen to Mac Mamma
2: pray for knowledge of God's will for you and the ability to carry it out.
3: pray for the graces necessary to overcome your problems
4: turn your focus on others rather than yourself. Pray for them, help them, etc.
5: wrestling with God's will is natural. It is a struggle. Often times there are things underneath the obvious we do not see which make it hard. It requires deep soul searching. God will teach you if you let him. Accept that this journey is going to last you the rest of your life. You will always struggle, but it will only get better. Offer your suffering up to God in reparation for what he suffered here on earth.
6: it's ok to make mistakes, that's why God gave us the sacrament of reconciliation.....confession.

Answer 2

You're not alone. Some things are just too difficult to accept. I think God will forgive you knowing how hard it is on you. Just ask for forgiveness, guidance, and time to come to terms with it all and just have faith that somewhere down the road you will find understanding.

Answer 3

You're definately not alone! All we can do is remember that God knows us better than we know ourselves, He has plans for us that are SO much greater than what we have planned for our own lives, and while it does seem like He's punishing us sometimes, we know that He would never intend to hurt us.

Answer 4

God is reasonable. He knows we are going to make the wrong decisions. What matters is we try, and when we do make a wrong turn we feel remorse.

Faith is a journey which will last everyday of your life, it isn't supposed to be easy.

Answer 5

You are realizing that there is no god.

Embrace science and give up your superstitious ways. You will have a much more fufilling life.

Answer 6

Your own will is God's will. Remember, the God is within you. Find the answer within yourself.

Answer 7

Join the club. And how do you know God's will anyway?

Answer 8

Allah's Will: Universal and Legal:

We believe that His will is of two kinds:

· Universal will: through which His intention is carried out. It is not necessary that what is carried out is liked by Him. This type of will means "permission", as Allah said, "Had Allah willed, they would not have fought one against the other, but Allah does whatever He desires," (2:253) and "If Allah desires to lead you astray, He is your Lord." (11:34).

· Legal will: which does not necessarily entail that the execution of His desire. The will, in this case, cannot be but what He likes, as He said, "Allah wants to forgive you." (4:27)

The example of these two wills is a man who has a son. This man tells his son "do not play with electricity, it will hurt you." This man does not then tie his son to the bed-post in order to prevent him from electrocuting himself. If the son then disregards his father's warning then that is his choice. It can not then be said that the son only electrocuted himself because the father "wished" that he do so and had the father "wished" to prevent him from doing this then he could have tied him to the bed post his whole life.

From the above example, we see that it is possible for God to "will" that we do good but to not force us to do so even though that is within His power. Whatever we then choose to do, either good or evil, is then also only accomplished through God's "will" since He "allowed" us to do so and did not force us to do that which He commanded us to. In all cases, all things happen through the will of God, however, not all things that He wills are pleasing to Him.

We believe that His universal and legal wills are part of His wisdom. Every thing He performs in the universe or requires legally from His creatures is for a good reason and according to His wisdom, whether we grasp it or it escapes our reasons: "Is not Allah the best of Judges?" (95-9), "And who is better than Allah in judgment for a people who have firm faith." (5:50)

We believe that Allah loves His select servants and they love Him: "Say if you love Allah, follow me and Allah will love you," (3:31) "Allah will bring a people whom He will love and who will love Him," (5:45) "Allah loves the steadfast," (3:146) "And act justly, surely, Allah loves the just," (49:9) and "Do good; Allah loves those who do good." (5:93)

We believe that Allah likes what He prescribed of good deeds and sayings and He dislikes what He prohibited of bad deeds and sayings: "If you disbelieve, surely Allah does not need you, yet He does not like disbelief for His servants; if you are thankful, this pleases Him,"(39:7), "But Allah disliked their marching forth. So He kept them back, and it was said to them: 'Stay with the weaklings'." (9:46).

We believe that Allah is pleased with those who believe in Him and do good deeds: "Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Him. That is for him who fears his Lord." (98:8)

We believe that Allah is angry with those who deserve His anger among the non-believers and others: "And those who think evil thoughts of Allah, against them shall be the evil turn of fortune. Allah is angry with them." (48:6) "But whoever opens his heart to disbelief, on them is Allah's wrath and they shall have a severe punishment ." (16: 106) .

We believe that the sinner has no excuse in Allah's Divine Decree because he commits his sin by his freewill, without knowing that Allah has decreed it on him. That is, because no one knows Allah's decree before it takes place: "No soul knows what it will earn tomorrow." (31: 34) How can it be possible, then, to present an excuse that is not known to the person who is advancing it when he commits his offense? Allah invalidated this type of argument in His saying: "The idolaters will say 'Had Allah willed, we would not have been idolaters, neither our fathers, nor would we have forbidden anything.' So did the people before them disbelieve until they tasted our might. Say: 'Have you any [true] knowledge that you can produce for Us? You follow nothing but assumption, and you are but lying." (6:148) We say to the sinner who is using Divine Decree as an excuse: 'Why did not you perform deeds of obedience assuming that Allah has decreed them upon you since there is no difference between them and sins in being unknown before they happened from you? That is why when Prophet Muhammad told his companions that everyone's position in Paradise or Hell has been assigned, they said: "Should not we rely on this and stop working?" He said: "No, work and every one will be directed to what he is created for." (Bukhari & Muslim)

We may say to the sinner who is trying to find excuse in Divine Decree: "Suppose, you want to travel to Makkah. There are two roads that may take you there. You are told by a truthful person that one of these roads is dangerous and difficult, the other is easy and safe. You will take the second one. You will not take the first road and say it is decreed upon me. If you did, people would consider you crazy.

We may also say to him: "If you are offered two jobs, one of them is higher in salary. You will certainly take the one with the higher salary. Why then do you choose what is lower in the Hereafter and use Divine Decree as an excuse?"

We may further say to him: "We see you when you are inflicted with a disease, you knock every physician's door looking for treatment and bearing whatever pain that may result from surgical operations and the bitterness of medicine. Why do you not do the same when your heart is spiritually sick with sins?"

Answer 9

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