I like philosophical questions like this.
Although related, Fate & Destiny are not quite the same thing.
Fate is the idea that there are predetermined markers in one’s life that are going to happen and there’s nothing you can do about them. It is considered inevitable and you can’t escape it, good or bad.
Destiny is not so rigid and allows the individual the ability to make choices along the path to what may seem to be a predestined destination. It’s almost as if you decide something for yourself and will it into being by your life choices.
Personally, I believe in a Higher Power, in a Creator, YHWH. And while there are plenty of texts, scriptures and books written for religious reasons about a Higher Power, about a Creator, about a YHWH, I don’t ascribe to any in a religious sense. In other words, what is written is not immovable or fated, necessarily.
I believe we are allowed a lot of creative licenses with our own lives by the Creator YHWH, but we are not puppets on a string being moved on a daily basis in any direction to prosper us.
And for me, that is the key – prosperity.
I believe the creative licenses we are afforded are our opportunities to be instruments of His divine light.
What does that mean?
It means, in my estimation, that the Creator YHWH is not involved at all anymore in the operations of this world, only His Spirit and His Light.
His Spirit and His Light, having come to this world for a time in human form as Yahshua, understands our strengths and weaknesses, our passions and ambitions, our fears and mistakes. He understands that we are not perfect – and we cannot be perfect.
Yahshua is the one trying to work through us to save as many as possible before the inevitable end of the world which YHWH has already predetermined and which no one, not even Yahshua, knows when.
We don’t have to be perfect.
We don’t have to be religious.
We don’t have to appear holy to anyone.
We have to, to the best of our abilities, let His Spirit and His Light work through us to do His will, which is to help people and take care of this earth.
I believe Yahshua has markers or fixed points in time prepared to help us accomplish His goals. That does not mean we will find them or accept them. We have the freewill to avoid them or ignore them if we so choose.
Many people are very focused on deciding for themselves who and what they want to be in life, that they create their own markers and occasionally avoid or ignore the one’s Yahshua has set in place for them. They have their lives mapped out and how they intend to get there and any deviation from that imagination of their mind, causes them anxiety, worry and fear. It doesn’t mean they are a sinner or going to hell or anything like that. That is for Yahshua and YHWH to decide.
I believe our short mortal lives can be a bit brighter and happier when we find His fated markers and embrace them.
And what is a fated marker?
It’s any good deed that helps someone else or repairs something that is broken that is placed on your path.
What does that mean?
Love. Charity. Kindness. Mercy. Grace. Forgiveness.
Some people organize charity and there’s nothing wrong with that. But there is another kind of charity that costs you something and it’s something more than money.
Time.
Your time is the most precious thing you have in life. And when you predetermine for yourself what you will do with your time, that is selfish – and there’s nothing wrong with that, but it must be done in measure.
Yahshua isn’t always asking you to do something kind and wonderful for everyone else but you have to be open to doing those kindnesses when they present themselves.
And a lot of people cannot do that. And don’t want to do that. They may seem very charitable and giving but they only do it when it fits their schedule, when they have predetermined and set aside time to be kind and charitable.
Yahshua, I believe, is looking for people who are willing to break from their predetermined schedules at any moment, when someone else who is in need crosses their path. That’s when you have the FATED opportunity to let His Spirit and His Light shine through you. He made sure you were there to fix a problem, offer a kindly word, do something simple and positive to make someone else’s life a little better. And if you speed pass that opportunity, you miss discovering the real DESTINY you were meant to discover.
You may get to where you wanted to go, but it may not be where you are supposed to be.
I think, there is a destiny or design to this existence, and fated markers exist to steer us towards that goal, but first we must share the Creator’s vision of what the goal looks like. And I think, whenever we find that vision and those markers, we discover a contentment we will never find walking our own selfish road. And contentment I believe is the true key to our existence. Be happy doing what you are doing, and when your happiness is in synch with destiny, the markers come easy and joy cannot be taken from you.
There will be hardships and there will be loss.
But if you are willing to do the good for others Yahshua wants you to do, you will always be the light others trying to walk their own path turn to when their walks are ruined because you never intended to get somewhere for yourself. You intended to get wherever He leads. You have to be willing to follow, and I don’t mean humankind or religious practices.
I mean the Spirit of love, charity, kindness, mercy, grace and forgiveness.
I believe I was destined to find my wife, Susan.
I believe there were fateful markers set in both our lives to bring us together.
I believe that despite fate, we had the choices to miss each other, to follow another path, to go another way for some other selfish reason.
I believe in the end, we were individually led by the same Spirit to embrace all the markers, no matter how difficult or challenging they were, to find each other and stay with each other, to be content in our acceptance of destiny.
There is no greater joy in life than knowing you have reached your destination.
And your destination is always changing. It is the next person Yahshua wants you to help.
Don’t ever pass that opportunity by.
Selah
Allen M Werner is the author of THE CRYSTAL CRUX SERIES.
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