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Does God have a plan for your life? What’s the connection between a fulfilled life<\/a> and obedience to God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You probably have a plan for your life. God, too, has a plan. That’s the view of Christian author Joyce Meyer, who argues that God’s plan is supreme and that you should choose to follow God’s will if you want to live a truly fulfilled life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more to learn about Meyer’s view on following God’s plan for your life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Following God’s Plan for Your Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Meyer suggests that obedience to God is necessary for a happy life. However, as Meyer points out, many people choose to seek God only when they are going through difficult times or are in particular need of His help but talk themselves out of following His will when things are going well. When you feel secure in your worldly success, it can be difficult to deviate from your<\/em> plan to start following God’s<\/em> plan for your life instead.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyer argues that a lack of obedience to God shows a lack of respect. She emphasizes that God has a plan for each of our lives, but we cannot be tools for His will if we’re stubborn and rebellious. To lead a truly positive life, she explains that we need to be willing to follow God\u2019s will at all times and without excuses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyer urges us to remember that our obedience to God affects those around us. If we follow His will, we\u2019ll be a positive influence in the lives of others. She notes that our lives would be better today if all of the people we\u2019ve been affected by were obedient to God. Parents, she argues, would do well to keep this in mind because a parent\u2019s disobedience today can impact their child\u2019s future. She explains that if parents choose not to follow the will of God, they are not giving their children the best start on their path toward a positive life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believing in God\u2019s Plan for Us<\/strong>

In the Christian theological tradition, obedience to God does not mean following a specific, predetermined plan for our lives the way Meyer describes it. In fact, Baptist minister Mark Woods proposes that believing that God has a specific plan for our lives is \u201ctheologically flawed.”<\/a> He explains that two problematic views of God can lead to such a belief.

Woods explains that some people ascribe to a \u201cdeterministic\u201d view of God, where everything that happens, good and bad, is part of His divine plan. In this view, we accept all of the bad things that happen in the world as part of the \u201cgreater good,\u201d trusting that everything happens for a reason, thus encouraging us not to question the plan and instead to be blindly obedient. 

Woods highlights two problems with this view:

1) The idea that there is an ultimate plan for the world and that our lives are part of that plan precludes the existence of free will and negates moral agency. If God has everything planned out, then our choices don\u2019t matter.

2) For the \u201cdeterministic\u201d view to be true, God would need to be cruel. Woods points out that truly terrible things happen in the world that a loving God would never plan.

The other view that Woods critiques is that God, as Meyer proposes, has laid out a \u201croadmap\u201d for each of our lives that will lead to us being satisfied and content. In this view, we expect good things to happen to us, and we accept them easily as part of God\u2019s plan when they do. When they don\u2019t, we assume that we\u2019ve failed God or that He is testing us. Woods calls this view of God and life \u201cmaterialist and consumerist\u201d because it frames faith as a transaction. When we do the \u201cright\u201d thing, we get a reward.

Woods explains that neither of these views is a healthy conceptualization of God and His role in our lives. He suggests that instead of thinking of God as planning<\/em> our lives, we think of Him as wanting <\/em>the best for us. In this view, God is akin to a loving parent. He wants a good life for us, He has given us the tools to mature as His children, and he is always there to support us. But He does not make our choices or lay out our path for us.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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