Do you believe in fate/destiny?
What is a destiny
According to oxford dictionary,destiny is what happens to somebody or what will happen to them in future especially things that they cannot change or avoid . The dictionary also describes destiny as the power believed to control events.
When people talk about destiny, they are talking about the desired state of life. Like a point in their life where they are happy, successful, having everything they want. Mostly when people says that they are towards their destiny, it means they are chasing their dreams.
Our dreams is mainly our desires, not necessarily that the gods or super deity desired that we be in a particular place which we are now struggling to get into, mostly it is our lust, desires and longings that drives us, and it is based on what we have seen from other people.
Destiny is a creation of man, God could not have placed man on earth and then set him into an imaginary journey that will take a big percentage of their life to reach.
Destiny of a nation is the state of a nation that the citizen desires at a particular moments.
what is Fate
According to dictionary, fate is the things especially bad things that will happen or have happened to somebody. It also describes it as the power that is believed to control everything that happens and cannot be stopped or changed.
When bad things happens to people, we say it is their fate
Fate and destiny is rubbish we have accepted in our mind
The reason i punch holes on the concept of destiny and fate is because they are mostly creation of people in their mind. First, There does not exists a place in life where one should feel totally contented, fulfilled, successful and without need for anything as that is the point people refers as destiny
They are imaginations created by individuals, nation or a group of people relative to other people. Destiny as we use it daily is a comparison term, it is what we desire in relation to what we see. We talk about destiny because other people has shown us that there are better things out there than what we have right now.
Am disagreeing with this concept because most of what happens to people is a matter of choice and decisions. It is based on choices we are making today that determines tomorrow. It is not that men has no control over what happens to them, Men builds and destroys. We are what we are now because of choices of our parents, grand parents or whoever that was there before us or choices we make ourselves. We are product of people, God did His job of giving us body, blood,brain and soul, then he gave us family, society and country. It is through socialization that we are what we are. We would be different people if we were born in a different society.
It is our society that shapes our religion, philosophies, believes, our thoughts, technology and how we do things. And all this things are the one that determines how our lives gonna be. How we are directing our affairs will determine how our children will do their things and how their lives will be.
“A place is as good as people once lived there.“-unkown
We have choices
It is not like we are powerless before some powers that control events. We should only learn laws of God. Our creator is the only one that has supreme power to dictate what happens to us. However, our creator does not dictate to us anything because He gives us choices to make.
Let us refer to the Holy writings as a supporting statement:
Deuteronomy 30:15
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
From the above statements that have been uttered by God the creator of man and universe,it is obvious men have choices. If the supreme and sovereign God does not dictate anything to man, what else can be soo powerful such that it is able to dictate what happens to man without their control.
It is men that makes decisions to go to war and wound others and make other people’s lives miserable. It is people that enslave others . It is people that do crime and are sent to jail as a consequence, by other people Offcourse. It is people that oppresses other people and exploits them. If children do not succeed, it has direct connection with choices made by man and woman that gave birth to them. We make choices and face their consequences, we and other people that are within the sphere of our influences.
How things should be
The man was supposed to keep the world peaceful, clean beautiful and habitable. God left a beautiful and peaceful earth to man, and man was supposed to maintain it.
Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
The earth was perfect and the reason men keep pursuing imaginary destiny is because they are feeling guilt of the earth they have destroyed, and so they keep desiring it was like how God gave it to them. It is because their spirit saw what God gave them, and so they are always dissatisfied with what they are saying. However, it would not have been that difficult to make their life be full of joy and contentment, had they not given their souls to evil and lust of their flesh.
Man was not supposed to be in pursuit of a destiny, getting a fate in the process. He was supposed to enjoy every moment of his life by keeping the commandments of his God and creating beautiful things like God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.