Christian Living

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Destiny, Destination or Predestination?

There is a challenge we all face in life. It is one that is critical to our success in life. If you are like the rest of us, at some point in your life you must seek to answer the question: WHAT WAS I BORN TO BE? We all know that when we buy a new equipment, it comes with a manufacturer’s manual detailing the uses to which the equipment may be put. Another section identifies the likely problems the equipment will face in the process of usage and what could be done to rectify these problems when they arise.

Humans were not given this privilege. At birth, no one told your parents what you are supposed to do or be in life. No one told your family what problems they should expect from you, what kind of sicknesses you will have to endure or encounter. No one specified the kind of person you should marry and the problems that will come with that relationship. No one mentioned the opportunities you will face and squander or conquer. You were born blank, and you don’t even have a memory of where you were coming from or where you are going to. You are as desperate as the rest of us.

Our parents try their best to ensure that they provide us with enough tools to enable us discover all these things for ourselves as we journey through life. Yet the best of their efforts will amount to nothing, absolute nothing, if you walk through the process without first discovering the purposes for which you were created.

When you don’t understand your purpose, the only option available to you is abuse, because no matter how good the effect to which you put any equipment, if it was not designed for that purpose, then it is being abused. It may do some good, but that was not the purpose for which it was created.

The same thing applies to us. The challenge is HOW DO I KNOW WHAT I WAS BORN TO BE?
In your own words, what do you define as Destiny? Consider it thoroughly before you read any further.

Then consider these definitions picked at random from the internet…
• an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
• the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny"
• fortune: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be

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