3 Q's on your destiny

1. Whose are you?

To be direct, your life is not yours. It belongs to someone else. [Who that someone else be?]

I know you have been using it and are using it all the time. In fact it is only you who are to live your life, for when you do not live your life who else lives (or uses) it? You are the only one licensed to use your life. So "you" should sleep for example. If you do not sleep who else can sleep for you?

The fact that you are the only licensee of the life you have does not alter the fact that it is "NOT" yours. [Likewise all you think you now have (or own) (like money you have, or the smart phone you are using it, or the social skill you think you have) does not belong to you, but to someone else.]

Ask Jeremiah what he knows, for he says in Jeremiah 10:23 (NIV)
"Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own."

Do you know what Jeremiah knows?

Does it matter to know what Jeremiah knows?

It does.

Remember: Jeremiah means "the Lord establishes". So if you want to be established (in the true sense of the word established), get the answer to this question right.

2. Who is (or should be) directing your step?

Once upon a time Jesus said to a young man, "Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” (John 21:18)

So think about the places you 'want' to go, and the places you "do NOT want" to do. And who directs your step to go to the places you WANT to go, and who directs your step to go to the places you DO NOT want to go, and yet you HAVE TO go to the place you do not want to go?

I know what you are thinking. You want options (or alternatives). So you think you can opt out to commit suicide. But what if even that option is not allowed?

Again, "who is (or should be) directing your step today and tomorrow?" And what will be the consequences?

Haven't you thought about it? Think about it.

Does this confuse you? Sort things out and still think about it.

To be direct again, Jeremiah says: "[I know] Lord, it is NOT for them to direct their steps." (10:23b)

3. How can you know your way?

Now would you please consider Proverbs 20:24-25 (NIV), "
A person’s steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand their own way?"

Way consists of steps taken.

For example, lately North Korea took a few steps towards the way to possibly WWIII. Will they take further steps needed down the road like shooting nuclear tipped IBM to GUAM?

If it is you who direct your step like Kim Jung Un you can 'understand' the way (or outcome).

But if it is not you, but someone else who directs "your" steps how can you understand the way?

The answer is obvious: you cannot unless you enter the mind of the one directing your steps.

How then can you read someone else's mind? Who can understand the mind of The Lord the King of universe?

No one for we are all less then a speck of dust.

Does this mean that we are hopeless?

I know what you think. You might wish to quote: "We live by faith not by sight" or "Trust in The Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding."

But for now listen to what Jeremiah had to say for he asks us of two things:

No. 1 - Acknowledge The Lord

No. 2 - Call on His name

Otherwise, expect nothing pleasant to happen, just as
Jeremiah 10:25 (NIV) says, "Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland."

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