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Another popular assertion that is grounded in a lie is, “It’s your destiny.”
It is a POPULIE that is once again promoted by politics, religion and entertainment.
Politics loves it because it makes the voters feel that some leader is “destined” to become the savior of a project or movement.
Religion promotes the idea simply because it keeps the faithful in submission to the illusive will of God.
And entertainment advertises this populie mainly because there is an ongoing accepted premise that people “just love fantasy” and therefore want to escape their real lives to conjure big dreams of slaying dragons.
Yet in our private moments, when we are alone with ourselves and we’re not in a bad mood, blaming the world or some divine force, we realize that it is our own choices that create our situations. And we still persist in using words like:
- destiny
- soul-mate
- being born a certain way
- having talent sent from God
- and feeling superstitious about “roads converging in our lives through cosmic energy”
Well, let’s look at the cosmic energy. What does this cosmic energy–in other words, God–have to say on this subject?
1. What we sow we will reap.
If I understand this statement, it means that I am in control of the harvest that comes my way by the planting I personally do. I am not under a family curse, demon possession, angelic fairy dust or the turn of a card.
2. If you do well, you will be accepted.
Interesting. When God spoke these words, He wasn’t relating the information to someone who was particularly spiritual. He shared it with Cain, who ended up being the first murderer. But He told him that the system is geared toward those who do and not those who wish.
3. Let every man prove his own work, that he has rejoicing in himself alone and not another.
So if God is in charge of my life, why would I need to prove the work? And if God is the one who’s manipulating everything, what gives me the right to rejoice in myself for achieving my goals?
4. Everyone will give an account of their deeds at the Day of Judgment.
If I am at the mercy of destiny–or even at its bequest–why should I be responsible for everything that happens?
When you remove the superstition, fear, tradition and anger from religion, you come up with one simple principle: no one is better than anyone else.
So if I work hard I will succeed. If I don’t, I will fail.
And it fascinates me that those who believe in the populie, “It’s your destiny,” would also become infuriated at the notion of someone removing choice from their lives.
It is your choice.
And today, you are about the business of determining what your life will truly be.
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