A brother was asking for clarifications regarding what destiny is and why God will allow people to suffer when already destined to prosper by God.
Thank God for giving me an answer for him.
Now, let me still share this answer with as many as are equally destined to find solace in it.
Destiny is the life reactionary to a specific choice made by man. There is this street parlance usually parroted by urchins, especially those who like to narrate their experience with fiddling with drugs. You will hear them say; ”Omo, that level carry me ”trabayee” (I hope you can relate with the spelling well. This is how best I can spell it). Meaning; it took them on a remarkable and either long or short journey.
In the same vein, every choice you make and execute will surely take you on its own resultant and remarkable trabayee. If you chose to be a carpenter, that choice will take you through life on its own specific resultant journey. If it was medical doctor, it will take you through its own specific journey. You choose to marry a rich, beautiful woman from a country overseas, this choice will course you through life in its own specific carved path. And so on and so forth.
This is to show that we are prone to having myriads of destinies wrapped in one destiny (the totality of our life). This pattern is rooted in the choices we make.
Therefore, destiny is a product of choices made and it is subject to who we truly are in terms of nature. I mean spiritually. That is why it is admonished we should not copy others, for we do not know the level of grace they are working with. They might make a choice without any evil repercussion for which if we only think of making could spell doom for us.
Now, we know for every authentic commodity, there are possibilities for million of other versions of it which are fake on their varied level of existence. Jesus said in one of his sayings that all others who came before him were thieves, according to John 10:8; meaning there was no authentic one among them.
There could be millions of destinies available to a man based on the millions of choices available for him to make but there could only be one authentic destiny. This is true based on the explanation of the relationship between choices and destiny earlier made.
There is one and the only authentic destiny. This is the destiny reactionary to choosing to please God by living a holy and righteous life. However, the Holy spirit is needed to enlighten one regarding what holy and righteous life truly is. Therefore as a seeker of the truth, we need to firstly play our role by fighting the temptation to do with our time those things that provide the mind the leverage to lure us to do unwholesome things for the spirit within, through it (through the body). What are these things? They are the likes of what we do with our mouth in talking, what we do with our belly in eating and what we do with our genitals in sexual activities. These trio is cardinal. Once we are able to conquer the temptations that come from these three, the rest would be to us small fries. We should desist from activities that are geared towards feeding the flesh and making it feel good all the time. Then, the Holy spirit will come and dwell in our heart to guide us through all things we humanly wouldn’t have ever had any inkling into based on our limited senses.
What is the authentic destiny? This is the reaction to the choice needed to be made to call forth this authentic and common destiny which has nothing to do with your genetic make up, family and cultural background, or any other factors combined to make you a human being that you are.
This destiny is ETERNAL LIFE borne of choosing to live a life that is pleasing to God your maker. This destiny of eternal life has nothing to do with anything material which we attribute our acquisition of them, as being making us disposed to enjoying.
There are millions of people with stupendous wealth of money who will tell you in all sincerity they don’t know what enjoyment is because they lack the joy that comes from the awareness of being saved from their sin. This joy I just talked about they are equally are not aware it exists, until God in His grace bring it to their awareness.
Eternal life attainment is the destiny of those who have found Christ which could be paraphrased as; who have found the will and purpose of their God and are willing to carry the cross accrued to executing this only authentic choice they have to make. These ones don’t live like the ones who are madly chasing after a fleeting shadow of a life like it’s going to be forever. These one are living to die for what they know is the only real and worthy destiny. They are aware that the time they were allotted here on earth is meant to chase this all important destiny; ready to suffer all that is needed to be suffered for in order to attain this destiny.
Dear brethren, the only real destiny is eternal life and the destiny helper you should seek is the Holy spirit. Seek the holy spirit by living a holy and righteous life which the holy spirit can never resist. Yes, a holy life has all the capability to seduce the holy spirit. Yes, if to seduce is bad, be bad like that in a good way. We can actually be bad in a good way just like we can be good in a bad way.
Your wisest choice is to seek the kingdom of God first, then begin to do the kingdom’s righteousness, so that every other thing which is nothing but the holy spirit (your destiny helper) will be granted you.
May we all fulfil our destiny as God has willed and purposed for us In Jesus Christ’s name.
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