What is my destiny?
Many people wonder. It becomes an obsession for some to figure it out. We especially wonder about it when bad things happen to us that cannot be explained, that seem cruel, and that are unfair.
Perhaps what we should ask first is What is destiny?
The Bible gives a more specific definition.
Not a happy thought, is it? Our destiny is to die. If we stop there.
Solomon, in all his wisdom, continues.
Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
Whatever we have been given in this life, we must enjoy it as our destiny.
But, my life isn’t that enjoyable.
Solomon knew that, too.
So, what hope do we have? Why enjoy the life we have been given?
Through Christ, we are predestined. It is a verb that means
- (transitive) To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain.
- (theology, transitive) To foreordain by divine will.
God’s action overrides the end result every time.
That’s how we live out the Ecclesiastical destiny! We remember that we have already been chosen by God to do amazing things according to His will and purpose. That when we die, the end result is far better than anything we could experience here on earth.
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