You Control Your Own Destiny

Daily writing promptDo you believe in fate/destiny?View all responses

I believe that humans are destined for unimaginable greatness and yet have been given the freedom to control our own destiny. We can choose the inner peace that we are designed and destined for, or we can choose misery that violates our mental and emotional design. In other words, we have been given the control of our own destiny. We can choose joy or sadness, hope or discouragement, surrender to God or rebellion against Him. The following poems that express this truth came to me during the night, before I got up and I saw today’s writing prompt:

The deep yearning
That is burning
Within your heart
Is the longing
For returning
To God's image.
No amount of
Human learning,
Money earning,
Or partying
Satisfies it;
Only Jesus!
Be discerning!

The human destiny
Is to begin to be
What we were made to be,
Spirit-led humanity
Eating the tree of life,
God's image for all to see,
Living in His victory.
But our tendency
Is to choose to be
The controller of our life
And violate our destiny
By trusting in our knowledge
Of good and evil.

Surrender your whole heart
To God's inner motion.
Then you will discover
Beautiful devotion

Discernment or deception?
Discernment is reception
Of God's living perception
With the eyes of the heart.
It's so much more than
Mental conception.
It's the tree of life.

Then these two poems came to me shortly after I posted this post:

Listen to Christ's teaching,
To His parables in your heart,
As the risen Jesus utters
Hidden things from old,
That your conscience
Has heard and told.
Then pass them on
In word and song
As you go along
And live the way
God's Spirit leads you
By His still small voice
Speaking within you.
Tell of His power
And the wonders
That God's Son
Has said and done
In the Bible
In your heart,
And in your life!
(Inspired by Psalm 78.)

Pop star pastors
Frequently create
Spiritual disasters.
Worship the Lord
And serve Him only.
Christ is the only One
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