Why is it that we so desperately try to plan out our own lives? We think we actually have the power to make our own destiny. Yes, we have the power to make choices in our life, choices that could change our lives significantly, but there are things that will happen in our life that we cannot help. Things will happen that we cannot control or manipulate or direct into our own scheme. Life will always be uncertain. You may steer the boat but it is that power of the waves that you must summit to when the storm hits. While we must come to the realization that we cannot be in power over our own lives we must also come to the apprehension that something or someone has to indeed be in control of our existence. This world has too much scientific evidence that to know that we were not just randomly evolved into being, but we were created by some intelligent force. As a Christian I believe that man was created by God and God alone. He is the intelligent force of every living thing and has complete power over this world.
There is only one decision that we have on this earth that we have complete freedom to make and that will alter our lives for all of eternity and that is what we do with God. Whether we put him in control of our lives or we try to blindly stumble around groping in the darkness looking for the light they have already walked away from. C.S. Lewis says it this way, “There are only two kinds of people in the end; those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in hell choose it.” We must realize that this decision is ours but we are still not the planners of our life, whether or not we choose to take up the offer from God of eternal life, God still has control over all things and over our lives.
If you have chosen to believe that God does indeed have complete control and oversees your life then this is now the place where you have to believe that everything happens for a reason and ultimately God has a divine plan for you. When we grasp this fact we stop trying to plan out our own lives but instead seek to do what God has planned for us. Isn’t it a relief to know that we don’t have to worry day to day about what is going to happen or what is planned for us? We cannot control life because life was not meant to be controlled by human hands. Things will happen that we do not understand and have no grasp of power over, but when we are satisfied that God does know what is happening and does have a hand on things we do not have to be scared or anxious because our destiny lies in the hands of the person who created us and if he created us than I believe He has the power to take care of my life.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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