Those who follow the way, the path of enlightenment are blessed by God. Those who choose to follow their own path, are not. It's as simple as that. The difficulty come in knowing what is the true path of God and what isn't. A simple way to know is look at those who have followed the true path such as Jesus, Buddha, St. Francis, etc. and do as they did. Not as others have interpreted what they did, but what they actually did.