Do you believe God has a specific plan for everyone of us?
Does God have a plan for our lives? Do we have a destiny? Does he know what we will do? Do you believe God has a plan for everyone?
Recently I made a post about how God has plans for us all and someone messaged me telling me how biblically false that is. I’ve read mixed answers from pastors and others. I would love to hear your opinion It's said that God has a plan for everyone. What if his plan for you is tragic and horrible? What if he makes your cross to bear much larger than that of other's?
Personally my life (so far) has been very blessed and full of opportunity that I am extremely grateful for yet there are many people who live a life of suffering through no fault of their own.
There is a difference between suffering that is self imposed (i.e. chosen, like a severely obese man who continues to eat without moderation) and suffering that is completely random and not a consequence of personal choice. I know that sin and suffering can be redeemed in the end but it's pretty clear that God and his plan challenges some people much more extremely than others. Why? And how does he choose who to give a tragic life? Tragedy doesn't just befall the evil and wicked, that is pretty clear. There are good people who meet with tragedy at every turn, whose good actions and will are met with tragedy and futility. It seems so random and chaotic. How can "God has a plan for everybody" and freewill exist simultaneously?
If God has a plan for me, then that plan apparently includes me denying his existence and being sent to hell. However,if this is due to my freewill, then I'm not part of his plan and cannot affect those who are part of his plan without actually being a part of his plan. Does God really have a plan for everybody?
Every night I pray to God, and when I do, I always ask him to lead me to the path that He wants me to walk on. Basically, I pray that He takes me where He plans for me to go.
I've been really struggling a lot with the concept of religion recently. I feel like God hasn't been there in the darkest of times. People keep telling me "it'll all work out" and "things happen for a reason" and "God has a plan for everyone." I guess I'm just having a hard time believing that, all things considered. I keep thinking of people who died early and tragically and people who made stupid mistakes that lead to their deaths and I can't help but think that either we play a bigger role in messing up our lives than we'd like to believe or that God does and I don't know what to think anymore. The whole concept of "free will" but also that God has a plan seems very conflicting and confusing to me. Does anyone have an example they could share of something terrible that happened to them that ended up seeming "all part of the plan"? Aka, it ended up better in the end because of it?
But does God really have a plan for everyone? I want to believe He does, but at the same time I don't want to get my hopes up. I'm going through some tough stuff right now. And if He doesn't have a plan for anyone, then I really don't know what the f*ck I'm doing here. Does He actually have a plan for everyone? If God apparently has everyone's life planned out down to the smallest detail, how is praying going to change that plan? And if your prayers are answered, how do you know that your prayer and God's plan don't just coincidentally coincide? I personally feel that the two concepts of prayer and God's plan contradict one another or at the very least, that if God does, in fact, have a plan for everyone, that praying is a waste of time. Perhaps prayer exists as a way for people to express to God that which they care deeply for and if that is the case, then by all means, pray away. If Christians believe that god has a plan for us all, how do we have free will?
I was always taught (Church of England) that God had a plan for us all, that if we stayed to true to His path we couldn't go wrong. We were also told that we had free will. But surely if straying from his path is wrong then we don't have free will. This always bugged me so I'm just trying to understand the other point of view. Does God have specific plans for our lives?
I know God will call people to go certain places, do certain things, etc. However, as far as things like marriage, is there evidence to suggest that there is one particular person God wants us to marry, or does He just want us to be "equally yoked" and look for a spouse who honors Him and will put Him first? God has always been in the background in my life, but throughout the years when I needed it most, I believe He has put people onto my path when I needed it most to guide me. I recently went on a solo trip to clear my head, and the home I was staying at was owned by a Christian woman. She had a Bible on the nightstand, and I looked to it for comfort. When my trip was over I went to say bye to her, and we ended up having a great emotional conversation about God. We both cried, and believed that me coming to stay there was not a coincidence. She told me that God has a plan for me, He loves me, and He has never left me. I believe it. We've kept on touch, and she's mailed me a beautiful Bible. I've had a really hard and miserable life. I grew up in a house that was full of addicts and abuse, and was sexually abused outside of my home for all of my teenage years. I have C-PTSD, and I'm struggling with my current relationship. But I have hope, I've always believed that God has a plan for me, that all of these things happened for a reason. He loves me, and He will always love me. Sometimes I feel silly for believing this especially when people don't agree.
I'm looking for some guidance, words of support, passages in the Bible I can look to for strength, anything really. I want to know Him. Please help. God Bless you all, I love you all. I believe god has a plan for us all so if you haven’t already, let him into your life. If you believe that God has a perfect, all-encompassing plan (be it for you individually or the universe as a whole), then praying for anything is pointless.
There is no need to pray if God is already planning on giving you everything you need (and nothing more) to fulfill his plan.
There is no point asking for anything extra, because it would require deviation from his perfect plan.
Praying for anything is equal to saying that you don't think God has already got everything under control.
It is like telling God that you think he forgot to think of something important.
If you pray for God to do something for you or give you something, you are saying you don't think he is perfect. What are your thoughts? Please forgive me for being so blunt with my question but I'll tell you why I'm asking. I was raised a catholic, went to a catholic school, initially it seemed I would do well in life. I was a lovely little boy full of life, wonder and dreams. I used to love everyone I met, I was naturally inquisitive and I would do anything for my parents to make them proud of me. Somewhere down the line it all went drastically wrong. Friends I thought I knew and loved turned their backs on me and bullied me, my parents become hard and cold, my sister was favoured over me in nearly all aspects. In religious studies I began questioning God and as a result was given detention, as a result I started hating God. When I became older and up until recently I started dabbling in drugs and abusing my body with alcohol. I was and still am depressed as hell but have never been diagnosed officially or medicated for it, its always been self medication. I lost 2 jobs before this, having no luck applying for jobs, been gradually going downhill since about 15 and I'm 23 now. My ex girlfriend was mentally and physically abusive, I thought she loved me and as a result of her abuse I have a hard time trusting anyone. I've tried turning back to God recently but I don't think he's listening, I know things don't always go the way you want as it might not be his plan but God, if you're up there, can you please cut me a break? I think I've suffered enough. Sometimes I don’t know if God has a plan for me at all in life and it’s driving me insane.
If God truly has a plan for me, why can’t he just show me, I can’t figure out shit on my own. Especially my future career, spouse and other things in the future, even praying doesn’t help at all. Spam all the Bible verses at me all you want because book passages aren’t going to help, and like the other subreddits I’ve been on, don’t bother DMing me because I won’t read it. Don’t even pray for me, because God won’t listen to my prayers. Have you ever gotten the, “God still has plans for you.” When you tell your Christian friends that you left the faith?
Rant
I spoke with a friend of mine who was really worried about the fact that I’m an atheist. He went through every apologetics trick in the book lol “how do you know right from wrong without god? What’s the cause of the universe? Etc.” I answered all of those questions but then at the end of the conversation he said “I just want you to know that we are all praying for you and we don’t think God is done with you yet.”
Is everything that happens part of God's plan?
And how can we tell? How do we know when to fight something, on behalf of God, or when to promote it, as part of His plan? If God allows someone's leg to be amputated, is it thwarting His plan to provide a transplant? Or is the transplant part of His plan? If God causes a hurricane, is that part of His plan? If we could prevent it (which we could now do) would that be thwarting His plan? Or would that to be part of His plan?
Like what the heck does that mean? Is that supposed to make me feel good? I don’t even believe that god exists, and if he did exist then I would want some more specific information than “he’s not done with me.” Is that a threat? I’ve decided from now on I don’t say “thank you” when people say they are praying for me, at least not when they are praying for me only in the hope that it will change my religion. We like to make our own plans and decisions for ourselves and even our loved ones which isn’t a bad thing but what we don’t realize is that God has a far better and meaningful plan than our own plan. We try to pretend like we know better but in the end we don’t know better and that’s why we need to rely on God’s plan instead of you. "“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." -Isaiah 55:9 Stop trusting in your own plans when God has a much better plan. Trust in the Holy Spirit instead of yourself.
Recently I made a post about how God has plans for us all and someone messaged me telling me how biblically false that is. I’ve read mixed answers from pastors and others. I would love to hear your opinion It's said that God has a plan for everyone. What if his plan for you is tragic and horrible? What if he makes your cross to bear much larger than that of other's?
Personally my life (so far) has been very blessed and full of opportunity that I am extremely grateful for yet there are many people who live a life of suffering through no fault of their own.
There is a difference between suffering that is self imposed (i.e. chosen, like a severely obese man who continues to eat without moderation) and suffering that is completely random and not a consequence of personal choice. I know that sin and suffering can be redeemed in the end but it's pretty clear that God and his plan challenges some people much more extremely than others. Why? And how does he choose who to give a tragic life? Tragedy doesn't just befall the evil and wicked, that is pretty clear. There are good people who meet with tragedy at every turn, whose good actions and will are met with tragedy and futility. It seems so random and chaotic. How can "God has a plan for everybody" and freewill exist simultaneously?
If God has a plan for me, then that plan apparently includes me denying his existence and being sent to hell. However,if this is due to my freewill, then I'm not part of his plan and cannot affect those who are part of his plan without actually being a part of his plan. Does God really have a plan for everybody?
Every night I pray to God, and when I do, I always ask him to lead me to the path that He wants me to walk on. Basically, I pray that He takes me where He plans for me to go.
I've been really struggling a lot with the concept of religion recently. I feel like God hasn't been there in the darkest of times. People keep telling me "it'll all work out" and "things happen for a reason" and "God has a plan for everyone." I guess I'm just having a hard time believing that, all things considered. I keep thinking of people who died early and tragically and people who made stupid mistakes that lead to their deaths and I can't help but think that either we play a bigger role in messing up our lives than we'd like to believe or that God does and I don't know what to think anymore. The whole concept of "free will" but also that God has a plan seems very conflicting and confusing to me. Does anyone have an example they could share of something terrible that happened to them that ended up seeming "all part of the plan"? Aka, it ended up better in the end because of it?
But does God really have a plan for everyone? I want to believe He does, but at the same time I don't want to get my hopes up. I'm going through some tough stuff right now. And if He doesn't have a plan for anyone, then I really don't know what the f*ck I'm doing here. Does He actually have a plan for everyone? If God apparently has everyone's life planned out down to the smallest detail, how is praying going to change that plan? And if your prayers are answered, how do you know that your prayer and God's plan don't just coincidentally coincide? I personally feel that the two concepts of prayer and God's plan contradict one another or at the very least, that if God does, in fact, have a plan for everyone, that praying is a waste of time. Perhaps prayer exists as a way for people to express to God that which they care deeply for and if that is the case, then by all means, pray away. If Christians believe that god has a plan for us all, how do we have free will?
I was always taught (Church of England) that God had a plan for us all, that if we stayed to true to His path we couldn't go wrong. We were also told that we had free will. But surely if straying from his path is wrong then we don't have free will. This always bugged me so I'm just trying to understand the other point of view. Does God have specific plans for our lives?
I know God will call people to go certain places, do certain things, etc. However, as far as things like marriage, is there evidence to suggest that there is one particular person God wants us to marry, or does He just want us to be "equally yoked" and look for a spouse who honors Him and will put Him first? God has always been in the background in my life, but throughout the years when I needed it most, I believe He has put people onto my path when I needed it most to guide me. I recently went on a solo trip to clear my head, and the home I was staying at was owned by a Christian woman. She had a Bible on the nightstand, and I looked to it for comfort. When my trip was over I went to say bye to her, and we ended up having a great emotional conversation about God. We both cried, and believed that me coming to stay there was not a coincidence. She told me that God has a plan for me, He loves me, and He has never left me. I believe it. We've kept on touch, and she's mailed me a beautiful Bible. I've had a really hard and miserable life. I grew up in a house that was full of addicts and abuse, and was sexually abused outside of my home for all of my teenage years. I have C-PTSD, and I'm struggling with my current relationship. But I have hope, I've always believed that God has a plan for me, that all of these things happened for a reason. He loves me, and He will always love me. Sometimes I feel silly for believing this especially when people don't agree.
I'm looking for some guidance, words of support, passages in the Bible I can look to for strength, anything really. I want to know Him. Please help. God Bless you all, I love you all. I believe god has a plan for us all so if you haven’t already, let him into your life. If you believe that God has a perfect, all-encompassing plan (be it for you individually or the universe as a whole), then praying for anything is pointless.
There is no need to pray if God is already planning on giving you everything you need (and nothing more) to fulfill his plan.
There is no point asking for anything extra, because it would require deviation from his perfect plan.
Praying for anything is equal to saying that you don't think God has already got everything under control.
It is like telling God that you think he forgot to think of something important.
If you pray for God to do something for you or give you something, you are saying you don't think he is perfect. What are your thoughts? Please forgive me for being so blunt with my question but I'll tell you why I'm asking. I was raised a catholic, went to a catholic school, initially it seemed I would do well in life. I was a lovely little boy full of life, wonder and dreams. I used to love everyone I met, I was naturally inquisitive and I would do anything for my parents to make them proud of me. Somewhere down the line it all went drastically wrong. Friends I thought I knew and loved turned their backs on me and bullied me, my parents become hard and cold, my sister was favoured over me in nearly all aspects. In religious studies I began questioning God and as a result was given detention, as a result I started hating God. When I became older and up until recently I started dabbling in drugs and abusing my body with alcohol. I was and still am depressed as hell but have never been diagnosed officially or medicated for it, its always been self medication. I lost 2 jobs before this, having no luck applying for jobs, been gradually going downhill since about 15 and I'm 23 now. My ex girlfriend was mentally and physically abusive, I thought she loved me and as a result of her abuse I have a hard time trusting anyone. I've tried turning back to God recently but I don't think he's listening, I know things don't always go the way you want as it might not be his plan but God, if you're up there, can you please cut me a break? I think I've suffered enough. Sometimes I don’t know if God has a plan for me at all in life and it’s driving me insane.
If God truly has a plan for me, why can’t he just show me, I can’t figure out shit on my own. Especially my future career, spouse and other things in the future, even praying doesn’t help at all. Spam all the Bible verses at me all you want because book passages aren’t going to help, and like the other subreddits I’ve been on, don’t bother DMing me because I won’t read it. Don’t even pray for me, because God won’t listen to my prayers. Have you ever gotten the, “God still has plans for you.” When you tell your Christian friends that you left the faith?
Rant
I spoke with a friend of mine who was really worried about the fact that I’m an atheist. He went through every apologetics trick in the book lol “how do you know right from wrong without god? What’s the cause of the universe? Etc.” I answered all of those questions but then at the end of the conversation he said “I just want you to know that we are all praying for you and we don’t think God is done with you yet.”
Is everything that happens part of God's plan?
And how can we tell? How do we know when to fight something, on behalf of God, or when to promote it, as part of His plan? If God allows someone's leg to be amputated, is it thwarting His plan to provide a transplant? Or is the transplant part of His plan? If God causes a hurricane, is that part of His plan? If we could prevent it (which we could now do) would that be thwarting His plan? Or would that to be part of His plan?
Like what the heck does that mean? Is that supposed to make me feel good? I don’t even believe that god exists, and if he did exist then I would want some more specific information than “he’s not done with me.” Is that a threat? I’ve decided from now on I don’t say “thank you” when people say they are praying for me, at least not when they are praying for me only in the hope that it will change my religion. We like to make our own plans and decisions for ourselves and even our loved ones which isn’t a bad thing but what we don’t realize is that God has a far better and meaningful plan than our own plan. We try to pretend like we know better but in the end we don’t know better and that’s why we need to rely on God’s plan instead of you. "“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." -Isaiah 55:9 Stop trusting in your own plans when God has a much better plan. Trust in the Holy Spirit instead of yourself.
