Destiny

Destiny
17.06.04

Is everything that happens to us and even everything that we do predestined? It seems there is a pattern to social evolution or whatever and this is traced through the discipline of History. Even simple observation makes it clear that there seems to be a constant ratio between say doctors and carpenters or between any or all professions, thereby taking the world in a predetermined direction. So the world is moving ahead according to God’s plan and that’s man’s destiny. Since freedom is something that man cannot seem to do without, how can it reconcile – destined man and free man? I say we are destined and the freedom given to us is to watch our destiny unfold. If we are unable to watch our destiny unfold, we would only be missing the drama. Is it also destiny that dramas are missed? That’s the whole point. Destiny is only as pertains to the outside or material world. Freedom pertains to the inside or spiritual world. So when the scriptures declare that man is free, it is speaking of the spiritual man. The tragedy is when man seeks freedom in the external world and wrests with his destiny for a more ‘comfortable’ deal.