God Always Wins

"Since you have apprehended the fact that God will overpower you, and beat the mace of tribulation on your head,
Like a Nimrod, repel God by war, if you can! Launch an arrow of hard poplar wood into the air against the Divine!
Like the Mongol soldier, shoot an arrow at heaven to prevent your soul from being torn from your body!
Or flee from God, if you can, and go your way; but how can you go, since you are a pawn in God's hand?
When you were in non-existence, you did not escape from God's hand; how will you escape from His hand now, O helpless one?
To seek one's own desire is to attempt to flee from God...
This world is a trap, and desire is its bait: flee from the traps, and quickly turn your face towards God. Abandon desire, in order that God may shower mercy on you.
Since you cannot escape, do service to God, that you may go from His prison into His rose garden"

Rumi (Vol.6, 372-383)

Commentary: Can God blame us for trying? We attempt to declare our independence and autonomy, but it simply isn't true. How lovely it will be, to live in that rose garden...