God will make that clear to you in the incidents that occur in your life that would show that you are being protected by Him or are the beneficiary of inordinant good luck as serendipity.
True, but what if it's your destiny to be royally screwed over, and serving God might suck for you even if it helps others? What if it even doesn't really help others, but is a necessary plot point to get to the next plot point? I mean, Darth Vader only does bad things because the script says so and needs other events to play out.
But couldn't Satan (or some lesser entity) fool someone into thinking they are protected/possessed by God whereas they are actually being protected/possessed by him?
But can Satan truly do something against God's will? In Job, everything he did was on God's command.
There is a story called Journey to the West, where a monkey god named Sun Wukong rebels against heaven and out of desperation, the gods ask Buddha to come over to China and deal with him. Buddha holds out his hand and says that if Sun can hop out of his palm, Sun can take over the gods in heaven. Sun leaps off, flies to a distant land, pees on a rock pillar, only to discover the rock pillar is Buddha's finger and it's impossible to leave the hand of an omnipresence.
No matter what we do, fate is fate.
This dharma is determined through the process of satya-advaita or truth accommodation, which ultimately seeks God's answers on whether you are on the right track.
Yes, truth is the only real "rock-solid foundation" upon which we should build our houses.
If God has truly had a grip over your truths you live happily and at peace with yourself and with whatever you have in your life because you are a fully contended human being in satchitananda.
I feel that's kind of irresponsible. There are plenty of depressed believers. Job was sinless in the eyes of God and look how THAT turned out.
Demanding personal individual answers from God is egocentric unrealistic micromanagement. God does not micromanage.
Agreed. I feel that God goes over general gists. While I pray for certain things, I also accept that a macro-being of some sort wouldn't exactly have me on a priority list.