Destiny and Choices
Destiny is that path that God has preordained for all His children to fulfill. The second best thing that can ever happen to any child of God after new birth is fulfilling God's destiny. Fulfilling Destiny begins with knowing who you are as a believer in Christ Jesus and your current standing with God. A lot of believers get trapped in the path of destiny because of the choice(s) they made.
Ultimately, God has the best plan for us and He intends for us to have the best as children of the King but our ability to hear well and clearly from Him with the ability to wait for His timing plays a critical role in having His best for us.
Let me share a story of a child of God who heard from God but did not get the details of what God was saying. He was devoted to in prayers and in the word. He asked God what He would that he does in the face of economic hardship and famine. During one of his Praying times, he heard God told him loud and clear; P.C! Hallelujah he said rejoicing, God has given me a word PC; he gathered his family and shared the experience. Finally he came to the conclusion that God has told him to plant a church (PC). So his family gave him the support and they started church. Two years passed and the progress in church was just his family and one other family. He had plunged in all his resources to the work of God. The fourth year, he began to be weary and went back to God asking where he went wrong. You told me PC and I went and did PC which was plant Church! he queried. God answered, yes I told you PC , but you didn't come back to ask what exactly I meant by PC. Well, I enjoyed your works but you didn't have the blessings because I didn't command it. So he realized he had wasted four good years in the wrong investment and pleaded for mercies. God then told him, PC means Plant Corn. Without hesitation, he closed the church and that same year he planted corn (PC) and became the richest man at the time because his farm feed three communities.
Yes God said it, but have we gone back to ask Him how we should get about with what he said we will be?
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
We can never have the expected end by our own assumptions. He has the plan and we can only know of it when He tells us. When we force ourselves into becoming what God told us without allowing Him to show us how and when, we make wrong Choices which may truncate or redirect our destinies.
Sometimes, people that God brings to our path are a step in the right direction towards our destination, but not the final destination. Some are just to support, but not become part of it. Some to help us discover our strengths and limitations.
We may tend to be comfortable with the path and abandon the destination which would have been the best of God for us.
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.1 Samuel 15:1-4 (Biblia)
Unlike Many assignment God gives without explanation to the instructions, God told the king through the prophet what he should do, but he became comfortable with the things he meet. Now look at what followed.
1 Samuel 15:8
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel 15:20
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
He made the decision based on what and how he felt was best. He committed blunders which had to cost him his kingship and generation. The journey became his destination.
What differentiate King David and King Saul was their heart and approach to things. For king Saul, he had excuse immediately the prophet questioned his misbehavior but king David would ask for mercy and forgiveness.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 KJV (Biblia)
When we stick to our paths without looking back at our assignment and, we tend to cling to the things that were meant to guide us. It is not out of normal to make wrong Choices but how we handle the mistakes we make is crucial to our progress. God is not only a God of a second chance but a God of many Chances. The load of compromise and sin not withstanding, realize your Short coming and return back to where you left the Lord, He will pick you up and take you to the place of destiny.
Let us Pray!
Father we thank you for your Grace and Love towards us and we ask that by your mercy you help us to fulfill destiny in Jesus Name! Amen.