My friend asked me yesterday, "What do you mean when you say that everything happens for a reason?"

Another asked, "If God has a plan for your life, doesn't it mean that we are just robots, executing his plan?"

I believe 2 rules of thumb can help address these queries:

1. God is 100% sovereign
2. Man are 100% free and responsible

As counter-intuitive as it sounds, both occur at the same time. Much like how Light has both wave-like properties as well as particle properties, some things are difficult to comprehend, but if you want to assume light ONLY has wave-like properties, then your theory cannot explain its particle-like properties.

I believe Man are still 100% responsible of each choice they make, but God, in His infinite wisdom and power, is sovereign over all that occurs.

Everything happens and happened for a reason... and sometimes we just need time to appreciate God's guidance through the things that have happened...

Not interpreting things just from our limited view, but seeing things from God's perspective.