DESTINY VS CHOICE:The Big Lie in the Equation

The word Destiny is one of the most misunderstood

and misused words by many. The issue of destiny is

complex and requires a conscious effort before one

can understand it. First and foremost, what is Destiny

in lay man's understanding, it is a Godly mandate of

what God has said they will be in life but how does the oxford advance learner's dictionary define

Destiny, It say that it is what happens to somebody or

what will unavoidable happen to somebody in the

future, wikipedia corroborate this definition by saying

that Destiny is the events that will necessarily happen

to a particular person or thing in the future, by the above definitions one can say that Destiny is

sacrosanct meaning it cannot be changed, derailed or

improved, it is fixed only waiting for maturity date

and believers in

 Destiny attribute it to be the act of

God but is this true? Did God actually create man in

robotic nature where he has no say or will power regarding what becomes of him and his affairs,

before we answer those questions let's consider

what CHOICE is, the same oxford advanced learner's

dictionary says that CHOICE is an act of choosing

between two or more possibilities or the right to

choose, which in essence means availability of multiple options. 

Now let's come back to destiny which many believe

is God's indelible stamp of what they will be. In

Genesis 1vs26 there was a consensus before man

came into existence and after man became a living

being God in verse 28 blessed him and sent him forth

but not without warning as to what to avoid to ensure his comfort so in Genesis 2vs16-17 God

commanded man to enjoy the fruits of the trees in his

place of abode but the fruit of the tree in the centre of

the garden he should avoid it like a leper else he fall,

from the foregoing it was now the CHOICE Adam will

make either to avoid that tree and its fruit or eat of the fruit that will determine his future and

relationship with God in that paradise garden and not

his Destiny. 

And in Genesis3vs1-7, the matriarch Eve

made that costly CHOICE of eating the Forbidden fruit

and his husband followed suit and that inglorious

choice shut them out of grace and favor from God's presence and they were driven out of their beautiful

home. 

Now if destiny believed to be the act of God was real,

then  the disobedient act of Adam and Eve can be

excused and seen as the act of God who has destined

them to disobedience but the scripture says God does

not test men with evil neither is God tested with evil,

No work man labors to build with the intention to destroy what he has labored build and if any God

could not be such. 

The proponents of destiny may posit and argue to

support their claim to the existential of destiny using

Bible characters like the Lord Jesus{the humble savior

of my soul}, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Samson etc as

their examples of people destined, yes, the future of

these people were foretold, they were appointed to fulfil a divine mandate for a season and such is one of

the attributes of God's nature, at any point in time 

God

can delegate, send or commission someone for a

particular mission after which he can release that

individual to carry on with his/her life, take for

example the virgin marry after the birth of our  Jesus, God released her to lead a normal married

family life, Jehu  a captain in king Ahab army was

appointed to rule to avenge the blood of Naboth

{against Ahab household} who was killed by Ahab

because of his father's vineyard, many such cases

abound so a lot of people see and compare and believe that these divine appointments are

destinies. 

I repeat destiny by definition is sacrosanct,

indestructible, irredeemable and non amendable. The

fallacious belief in Destiny has made many redundant

and non progressive in life because they believe

there is something special God wants them to be, yet

they don't know it and how do you achieve what you don't know or aspire for. 

The good{smart}choices we

fail to make or bad choices we make in life work 95%

to determine how life treats us. If one fails to be

pragmatic and do the right things at the right time

and utilise every God given opportunity no destiny

from anywhere can make him/her to be anything great or special. 

God in Matt7vs7 said ask and it shall be given, seek ye shall

find and knock it shall be opened unto you, brotherly

that's a call and command to choose and not destiny,

if any refuse to ask, seek and knock, no door opens,

nothing will be found and nothing will be given, so in

essence it is what we ask that we receive, what we seek we find and the door we knock that opens and

not our destiny which we don't even know what it is.