DESTINY

Dear precious readers and friends,

“Look at what I’ve done for you today: I’ve placed in front of you Life and Good, Death and Evil” (Deuteronomy 30:15 The Message)

The decisions you make today will determine where you will be tomorrow. Destiny is the sum total of decisions you make in your life.  In a world where there is so much confusion about what is right and wrong the only way to relieve yourself from the confusion humanity faces is to make a decision who to honour with your life and serve under your choice of leadership.  Whether you choose or not under whose leadership you will serve you are going to follow something consciously or unconsciously.  Rather it be consciously so you know exactly what you are dealing with than to follow blindly like a puppet; moving with every wind that blows.

“If you decide that it’s a bad thing to worship God, then choose a god you’d rather serve—and do it today.” (Joshua 24:15 The Message)

Your will, as a person is the initiator of your choices. Which means if you fail to decide what you want in life, you put yourself in the spot of selling yourself short of what you could achieve with your life.  Decision making is crucial to everything you do on this earth and believe me when I say you can’t live a life of assumptions. Don’t be aloof about what goes on in your life.  Know the why’s; why you are getting an education, why you need to listen to your parents, why you need to abstain from sex until marriage, why you don’t have to try drugs or alcohol and the list is unending.  Finding the answers to these questions would alter your experience and encounters at this stage of your life and the life ahead of you. The other option is that you will most likely end up mixing up with the wrong crowd and you will not even realise it or you will just live with your life on pause and not reaching your full potential at the different stages of your life and you wouldn’t know it.

It would have been better for us all if there were guarantees in this life that you would always choose right, but there aren’t, and I don’t know how to get things right either, but I know someone who is Righteous and is Right and makes things right for me all the time as I follow Him closely and He can help you too if you let Him. I am talking about The Spirit of Truth-The Holy Spirit.

“But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is.” (John 16:13 The Message)

The Spirit of Truth-The Holy Spirit is the personal Helper who Jesus left on earth to help us get things right.  Howbeit, it is by submission that you can walk with Him not by addition. Let me explain that, you cannot just add Jesus and the Holy Spirit to your life like a carry on or a spare tire; picking them up as and when you feel like it.  NOPE!!! , you can’t do that buddy!  Submission to Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is a lifestyle. When you decide to give Jesus your life and make Him the Master and Saviour of your life, the Holy Spirit comes in and begins to do life with you;- this for me has been the most priceless decision I have ever made.  From the moment Jesus becomes your Saviour and Master of your life the Cross of Calvary becomes your language. What you are saying from that moment on is His perfect Will over your will to deal with the unknown in this life. As you take that bold step, here is what Jesus says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”  (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT)

Submission to the Cross gives way to guidance from the Holy Spirit. That’s the choice you have to make for yourself either to do life alone or have guidance from He who knows the end from the beginning and has already put in place a perfect plan for your life.  But you will not know it until you make that decision either to submit or choose to do life alone and have Him as an  add on.  “I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. And love God, your God, listening obediently to him, firmly embracing him. Oh yes, He is life itself, a long life settled on the soil that God, your God, promised to give your ancestors,....” (Deuteronomy 30:19-20 The Message)

The promises of God is as new and fresh as the dew of the morning tomorrow. It’s your call.  Make a decision that would alter your destiny for the better today.

R.