February 4, 2010
Christians, Since God Is In Control Of Your Future, Do You Think It’s Futile To Set Personal Goals And Plans?
Not at all.
God has given us a gift of life for us to live it and to make the best of it.
If you give a child a bike, you’d be disappointed if he didn’t make good use of it. and when he hops on and rides off, you’d be pleased – you wouldn’t just stand there and say ‘I knew he was going to do that’.
If the goals and plans are in agreement with God’s will, then they will be blessed. If they aren’t, they won’t be blessed.
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Comments on Christians, Since God Is In Control Of Your Future, Do You Think It’s Futile To Set Personal Goals And Plans?
God isn’t in control of our future. We have free will.
Since God exists outside of time, he can see everything at once, whereas we experience it chronologically. Therefore, just because he knows it will happen, doesn’t mean he is causing it to happen.
Read Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologicae or Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy.
I don’t think God planned our future, God can foresee our future in every choices that we made. If He already planned our future then our freedom to live is this world is deprived for we are like robots to be controlled off and we can’t call ourselves as a rational being. I believe that God only wants us to be happy living in this world.
God gave us the bible so we would know what sort of goals are good for a person to make.
To make it even more personal, we have prayer as well as simple common sense and reasoning.
Too often our parents make plans for our lives and too often people go along with those plans.
But if God isn’t in the plan, those plans will not succeed.
Apart from His will, yes, because nothing will work out, or be satisfying. But to answer the question the way you asked it, no, just because He knows us better than we know ourselves doesn’t mean our choice is taken away.
plan
as you are guided to
love one another
judge no one
get it now
or
get it next time