The common view is we are donkeys pulling a cart. There is a driver behind us, holding a stick and waving a carrot before us. We are trying to avoid the stick, and reach for the carrot. The driver is God, whom we cannot see because He is behind us and we wear blinders, holds and controls the stick, Hell and judgment, and waves the carrot, Heaven, before us. The cart, God’s Plan, is the task we move to some completion.
Change your view. You, we, I are not separate from God’s plan, and are not separate from God. We are NOT God, but IN God, indivisible from God, for without God we would not be. In this view (if you must hold on to the analogy), the cart, driver, and donkey are one. There is no need for a carrot or a stick, because we are a unit, an entity.
The cart, driver, donkey, stick, and carrot have, through the ages, been our world view. It’s expressed in the Bible, but now we can better understand, by experience, Creation, God, and ourselves. We are not alone, separate, burdened, fearing punishment, hoping for blessing. We are, well, not exactly a team, but a whole. And as such we are Whole.
You can go through life with the cart and donkey world view, if you find it difficult to leave that theology behind. I just suggest you try a new view, maybe a better picture (Not by any means totally accurate, but evolving), until we grow more.
