Doesnt the Lord upset our plans to set up His own?

Answer 1

I'm sure he does; but not just to upset them. I have confidence that everytime that our plans don't go our way that God has a much better plan for us than we had for ourselves.

Answer 2

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering ...


A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
"I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber.
"I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me."
"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

He doesnt upset our plans.. it is whatever is in our karmas.

Answer 3

What feeling do you get when you use the word LORD? There is this sense of positivity that flows through one's blood and heart, right? You know that HE is someone you can blindly trust and leave everything to. HE loves us 17 thousand times more than our mothers so the strength of the decisions HE takes for us is unquestionable and beyond doubt. However what will give you the ability to trust HIS decisions when your own plans are thwarted is purely based on how much you LOVE HIM AND BELIEVE IN HIM. People who feel that LORD'S decisions for them has stepped on their own plans are the one's who don't know GOD, to say the least.

Answer 4

Do you know that everything even will power is in the hands of Karma!! But Vivekananda says everything even will power is in the hands of Karma but there is something which is not affected by Karma.

This something you may call God's grace, your own effort or renunciation I don't know.

Wise people said that God himself became every being, that means you are God, I am God etc so how can you yourself change the plans? It is Karma that changes the plans, this is only Maya-this cause and effect world is Maya, world is just dream.

Actually god is your own self, you are fighting a war with Maya, that is the significance of Bhagavadh Gita...

Answer 5

If you think about it for a minute you realize it is impossible for God to plan anything. If everything in the future is known then that means there is no need or space for plan making. It also totally wrecks the idea of any effective free will. Everything has to be preordered and there are no choices possible.
No matter what you do your fate is already complete.

Have a nice day enjoying your predestinated life.

Answer 6

Lord doesnt upset our plans. Unknowingly or unwitingly we upset our own plans. He created us with brain to think so he will never stop you from what you want or what you plan. We are not created Robots under somebodys control.He gave us all the freedom to do all things . He just wanted to avoid things that will not benefit humanities.

Answer 7

Nah.

All events are brought about by cosmic laws, what people signify as God's work are Laws which were set in the beginning so all things could evolve from the alpha of primordial ignorance to the acquaintance of fulfilled knowing/fullness. So since this is true and it is God's natural Laws which are neutral that work upon the mind and being that move all things, as there is one spirit which moves all things then it is impossible for anything to be outside of God's will, after all everything abides within the Mind of God. The Laws which govern all things bring about all things, God's only will is that all the prodigal children become perfect and the laws as I explained were set so that this very reality could come to pass, so we could become Complete as God is complete, dwell in One-ness with the indwelling Logos. So there is nothing that does not happen that is outside of God's Will.

Our will is very limited, must of our will is truly realized in our higher selves, which frames the conditions of our lives and expresses us as an essence of itself. Free will is consciousness and while mechanical man may think he is free it is only an illusion. There is nothing that occurs that was not meant to occur, as it was chosen.

Answer 8

no, that's why he gave you free will. if something doesn't happen the way you want it to that doesn't mean he stopped it. time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11,12 reads...I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor; because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all. For man also does not know his time. Just like fishes that are being taken in an evil net, and like birds that are being taken in a trap, so the sons of men themselves are being ensnared at a calamitous time, when it falls upon them suddenly.

Answer 9

Yes, the Lord upsets much of our plans, knowing our nature and the destiny. IF he didn't knew what is good for us and what is bad for us, He wouldn't be our Lord.

A youngster would do all the things that make him happy, it is the parents who protect their child and disrupt his plan

An infant is protected by his mother from many of the problems that the infant might land into, if the mother wasn't there.

We are children of God, with limited knowledge , God has infinite knowledge, He knows past, present and future.

And if He really likes you, He will change most of your plans for your good, which you will realise only later.

Let Him upset your plans and agree with His decree. Man, you ill be the lucky one

Answer 10

The Lord never plans it is we humans who plan because we are ignorant. The most important plan that is how to get ourselves liberated is never made by us, all the other plans are our own doing. Do not blame the Lord if your earthly plans are disrupted because these plans are highly flawed at the outset.

Answer 11

Imagine a spring (Gods Will), and a river running from the spring (ones Fate Karma), and finally a set of rapids before the river flows into the sea (ones thoughts and desires). Everything downstream from the Spring is served by the Stream... because the Will of God is the water, and regardless of what actions or events the water experiences... it remains water.

Peace