{"id":8785,"date":"2015-08-23T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=8785"},"modified":"2015-08-23T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T22:08:10","slug":"weve-been-told-that-does-god-have-a-plan-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=8785","title":{"rendered":"The big question…
DOES GOD HAVE A PLAN FOR US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: I am excited to be able to use this space on the Internet as a place in which we can join together to ignite a worldwide exploration of some of the most revolutionary theological ideas to come along in a long time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ideas I intend to use this space for in the immediate future are the ideas found in\u00a0GOD\u2019S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD:\u00a0You\u2019ve Got Me All Wrong. \u00a0<\/em>I believe this new book (published last October\u00a0by Rainbow Ridge Books) places before our species some of the most important \u201cWhat if\u201d questions that could be contemplated by contemporary society.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The questions are important because they invite us to ponder some of the most self-damaging ideas about God ever embraced by our species. \u00a0For example, the statement that\u2026<\/strong>God has a plan for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much of the world believes in a God who has a particular plan in mind for every human being. This is a God who is said to have handed out to each of us specific talents and attributes, equipping each of us to undertake particular missions, perform discrete functions, and fulfill distinct and disjunctive purposes over the course of our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our job is to figure out what that plan is, and then to follow that plan as well as we can. Or, at best, to \u201cgo with the plan\u201d as it makes itself obvious through the events of our days and nights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now comes The Great What If . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

What if God has no specific plan for any of us? What if God has no preference in the matter of how we live our lives, or what we do, in the specific sense, with our days from birth to death?<\/span><\/p>\n

Would it make a difference? Does it matter? In the overall scheme of things, would it have any significant impact in our planetary experience?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes. First, it would relieve us of the burden of having to figure out what we are \u201csupposed\u201d to be doing here, and how. We could end our search, stop our pursuit, quit our quest, and conclude what we have constructed in our reality as our sacred seeking for God\u2019s sacred assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, we could begin at last, in full awareness and in earnest, the journey upon which we really came to the earth to embark. This is not God\u2019s \u201cplan,\u201d this is the soul\u2019s desire. And this always has to do with what we are being, not what we are doing in and with our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

If we thought that God did not have a specific agenda in mind for us, we could pay attention to what our life has to offer us in terms of beingness opportunities, rather than what we think God has planned on our behalf (either for beingness or doingness). And we would stop seeing certain occurrences, coincidences, and confluences as \u201ca sign from God\u201d that we can now move forward with \u201cGod\u2019s plan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As well, if we thought there was no such thing as God\u2019s plan for us, we could drop many of the notions of religion, all the ideas of pre-destiny, and every imagining that a hidden agenda for us exists in divine mind, which God is simply not making obvious and clear to us (for reasons that are not evident).<\/span><\/p>\n

We could also stop killing each other out of an idea that it is \u201cGod\u2019s plan\u201d that a nation of \u201cGod\u2019s people\u201d who believe in God and practice God\u2019s will in a particular way must exist upon the earth\u2014even if it requires the killing of thousands of other people to create it.<\/span><\/p>\n

God has been telling us from the very beginning, and it is becoming more clear to us every day, that humanity\u2019s Ancient Cultural Story about God having a plan for us is plainly and simply inaccurate.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is okay now to remove this ancient teaching from our current story, and to stop telling this to ourselves and to our children.<\/span><\/p>\n

If God had a particular plan for every human being on the earth\u2014or, for that matter, for the human race as a collective\u2014God would have made it known to us long ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

God would have no reason not to tell you in crystal clear, specific, and direct terms what God\u2019s Plan for you is. Why would God devise a particular course of action for every single individual on the earth and then not reveal it to any of them?<\/span><\/p>\n

And to those who say, \u201cGod does tell us what it is. We are just not paying attention,\u201d is this an assertion that God is talking directly to each human being, and that we are simply not listening?<\/span><\/p>\n

And there are larger questions as well. Why would God have a specific plan for every individual in the world in the first place? What divine purpose would this serve?<\/span><\/p>\n

Would it not serve a greater divine purpose for God to simply supply the power and to provide the mechanism with which all sentient beings might decide, declare, express, and experience for themselves who they wish to be, instead of having to follow a plan set in place for each of them ahead of time?<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a divine purpose being served by life. But a purpose is not a plan. A purpose is the reason we\u2019re going to do things. A plan is an outline of the things we\u2019re going to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

This experience we are all having on the earth is not just a happenstance, not merely the latest in a million-year-old sequence of biological events. There is more going on here than simply the living out of physical life for no reason whatsoever except to complete a process that began for us without our involvement or agreement. And that purpose is much larger in scope than the mere encountering and living through a series of pre-planned occurrences.<\/span><\/p>\n

The agenda of God is that all life forms in the physical realm express divinity. Each soul, as an Individuation of Divinity, has an eternity in which to do this, and an infinite number of ways to accomplish it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The soul willfully and intentionally uses life in the physical as a means with which to express and experience all the aspects of divinity that it is possible to experience. These aspects are limitless, thus, life itself would have to be without end in order to experience them. And so it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each separate physical expression of a soul\u2019s infinite life offers it an opportunity to select and express any aspect or aspects of its divine nature that it chooses. Thus, the soul comes to each lifetime with an agenda, but not with a plan. The soul\u2019s agenda may be to express and experience compassion, for instance, or patience and understanding. But the soul does not come to physical life with a predestined decision to do so by becoming a nurse, or by writing a book on human psychology.<\/span><\/p>\n

To reiterate then, an agenda is the underlying intention or motive of a particular person or group. An agenda has to do with purpose. A plan has to do with process. It is a specific way to achieve a purpose, to follow through on intention. God and the soul have an agenda, but neither God nor the soul dictates or plans how a particular person should, or is going to, fulfill that agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, it is not \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d for a particular person to be in a car accident as a child, or experience the divorce of parents, or marry three times, or have no children, or have four children, or contract leukemia, or move to Nebraska, or become a famous painter, or meet just the right person at just the right time to move their career forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d for one particular person to be a minister rather than a professional football player, or another to be the dynamic leader of a country rather than a dynamic country music star.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is God\u2019s agenda, carried into the realm of the physical by the soul, for that soul to experience states of Being\u2014the sum total of which equal the All that we call God. Or, as it was said just above: The agenda of God is that all life forms in the Physical Realm of the Spiritual express Divinity. Each Soul, as an Individuation of Divinity, has an eternity in which to do this, and an infinite number of ways in which it may be accomplished.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are these states of being that represent the many parts or aspects of God? With this as our soul\u2019s agenda, life invites us to be many things.<\/span><\/p>\n