Let the force not be with you!

If we are forced to do one thing, to my mind, we are being forced to do all things. And, so there would be no free will then at all. Everything is just happening because it is happening. It is just a big play, playing out. Everything is controlled, and there is nothing that happens freely. Actually, what I said could be seen in the opposite way too. If we try to force things ourselves, we are then not being forced so much, because we are counter forcing. What I said was not that we are not being forced by anything, but not to add our force to that force, so as to work against it. Just allow the force to be itself within us, being itself. There are two forces. The force of love and God, or the force from ourselves. I know which force I would rather align myself with, with the force of love and God. If we are not being forced by love and God, but by something else instead, it could be by another person, by life events, or by ourselves. I am saying to drop all of these counter forces, and just allow our boat to sail along, pushed by the winds of love alone.

@amitkokiladitya Is it better for us to be forced by something, or someone, or is it better to try, and to force ourselves, though? One type of force might be given up against in ignorance, the other might be allowed from awareness.

@innertalks usually life events are such that we are forced to do things which we never ever thought about doing. It is all what I call destiny and fate

Yes, you are often right, but the right type of a person, will push themselves, rather than be pushed, sometimes too. We often rebel against force being pushed against us, unless we understand it. That's why it's a good idea to try to understand how God works too, I think.

@Nakitakona That's true too. Yes, we could never think in the way that God thinks. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah, chapter 55, verses 8 and 9, from the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, confirms this.

@innertalks Yes, you are right. But let's remember our thoughts aren't God's thoughts. God works in a mysterious way.

@innertalks Yes, God gives us all many opportunities at getting blessings and if we don't respond then we lose the blessing.

That's well said, Ken. Yes, forced compliance does not come during the journey, but there are consequences, which usually come later.

@kanuck1 Yes, chance after chance is given, plus saints, and angels, even God's own son, are sent, and are there to help us too.

Thanks, may the force not be with you too...lol...

Yes, God does not force us to do anything for him, but he would like us to love him. We all like to be loved, even our creator does too.

Yes, that's true, I guess, but would you rather be walking against the force of a strong wind blowing against you, or with it, letting it blow you along. When we walk with love, it blows us along gently from behind; the force is with us then, the force of love working for us, and in us too.

@Shiva49 The connection is a tenous one at times: it is hard to feel it all of the time, but if we cannot feel it, we should look to see it in the world around us then instead.

God plays the tunes, without any strident sounds coming from his instruments. He runs a seamless operation; it is ourselves that unstitch his work, and remove some of the threads and stitches, and then his work has to be patched up again, with our prayers, and pleas to him, to do so.

@innertalks Yes, the connection with God is ever present. We reap what we sow and the signals are ingrained in our psyche. But we have the freedom to choose our own paths, retrace, and rejoin the right one later too. We could not have devised a better system that has been given to us on a sliver platter - siva

That's a really good point, that I hadn't thought much about before. Maybe, we need to provide our own brawn sometimes, and not just rely on the strengths of God to keep holding doors open for us, forever, for us to be given infinite chances to be (finally?) smart enough to go through them. Maybe, when a door closes, we have to then provide some extra effort to open it again, which we now can apply, because of the glimpse that we once saw, but then lost. Such a onetime glimpse, can drive people to search for it again through various closed doors for the rest of their lives, sometimes. Sometimes, they might find the same door again, sometimes not, but if they keep looking only for the same door, they might not realise that even God changes the locks on his doors sometimes, and freshes them up with a different coloured splash of paint, at other times too.

@DocAndersen And if we hang onto the door, it's swing might swing us right in, past the ditch on the other side of the door too, put there to sway away non-serious tourists...lol...

@innertalks any door we do not open is not as powerful as a door we swing wide.