Question about God's plan for our life?

[anon98328916]

I was reading parts from the book “I Want To Go To Heaven The Moment I Die” by Fr. Thady Doyle, with its analyses of both near death and real life experiences has the capacity to profoundly impact on how one understands the nature of God, the nature of eternal life, how judgement takes place and what it consists of, the teaching of Jesus, the nature of the human person as an embodied spirit, and how to become open to spiritual and emotional healing.

The near death experiences give us fascinating insights into the following,

How judgement works. After death, we will undergo a life review during which we will be faced with the full truth about our lives. The full truth about our lives includes the hurt we have caused directly or indirectly. One sees exactly how other people felt as a result of one’s actions, how this impacted on their lives, and how this led them to impact on the lives of others. One also sees what God’s original plan for one’s life was, and the opportunities that one missed, as well as all that one has accomplised in terms of bringing love into the world.

Especially after reading the above paragraph, it really started me thinking. I read before somewhere about we will realise the hurt or decisions we made throughout our life but the part that got me was “One also sees what God’s original plan for one’s life was, and the opportunities that one missed” it really made me wake up so to speak that God has a plan for all of us and He knew from the moment we were born how He wants us to life our life, through prayer for guidence can we gain the answers to that?

 

[Nap66]

How can we be blamed for missing opportunities? Sometimes I think God is not too clear in what he wants us to do. I don’t know what he wants me to do and I’ve been asking him for years to guide me.

Sometimes God a burning bush would really help guide me!

 

[Tis_Bearself]

As interesting as these type of books are to read, I think they need to be taken with a grain of salt. One person’s NDE may not be the same as another’s, and of course no one totally dead has ever come back except Jesus and the handful of people he raised.

I can see God pointing out opportunities where we failed to be kind to another, or failed to reject some sin. I can’t imagine God laying out some life plan that I was supposed to do some totally different thing like become a nun and I missed it (since I never felt called to that). God gives us the challenges he does in life to teach us lessons, and we believe he generally guides us on the path. Moreover, I’ve had a few little indications along the way that God was guiding me to do this or that. So I don’t think his plan will be radically different from what I did.

Now maybe if I’d become a drug addict and committed multiple murders, instead of leading a relatively normal life, that would be different. But who’s to say really, who knows?