Destiny

Survey many of the popular fiction works or video games and you find an interesting commonality in relation to the concept of destiny. Many people are drawn to and motivated by this notion of achieving a purpose driven existence. Though many turn to online fictional worlds to find identity and be a part of something that carries with it a feeling of meaningfulness. How can people find meaning in their life is often a question heavy on peoples mind in particular in their youth. Yet, according to our modern day worldview this system of existence leaves no room for such a reality as destiny. Even notions of conservation fail to realize that all species by necessity become extinct, and this includes the human race. All such notions surmise that if an individual truly wants his existence to be significant and virtuous, they ought to be a part of delaying global warming and saving the earth. Yet, even if man is able to delay this inevitability, the star of our solar system is dying, which is a process that is impossible to delay. When our sun dies out all life in our system will be extinguished. Ultimately, every effect of the humanity’s existence will eventually dissipate into nothingness. This means that every so called virtuous and significant accomplishment that anyone achieves will ultimately be rendered hollow. For no effect of a human existence can echo eternally, if in fact the virtue of humanity’s existence only extends to this temporal universe.

Just stop and think what is necessary for something to be given a destiny or a purpose. Behind every book and every video game are authors, creators, and designers. All such individuals are rational and intelligent beings, who are able to formulate a vision that entails plans, ends, and a final end. The characters in these books and games receive their destiny from the part they have to play in the creator’s vision that authored this fictional world. And such a system of absolutes, destiny and purpose, good and evil, are legitimate concepts that are utilized to draw the interest of those who decide to buy the games or read the books. These authors and creators establish a standard of acceptability and unacceptability that governs the actions that are performed in the system. Further, they develop identities that are shaped in view of the vision of the designers. The significance of the characters lies in their correspondence with the vision of the author. Take for example characters such as Frodo Baggins, Harry Potter, and Luke Skywalker. Each of these characters is infused by their authors with a purpose driven existence in view of the author’s vision that coordinates the ever-changing story line. This is to say that the author’s rational capacity enables for this to be accomplished.

Yet, many would lead us to believe that there is no divine reasoning that coordinates this ever-changing system, and if that is the case than all of our existences are meaningless and void of purpose. However, they attempt to deceive us into buying into their notions of destiny, virtue, and purpose after they have just ruled out the possibility of these being viable notions. A man builds a car and ordains it with a virtue of getting a person from point a to point b with the capacity for such and such a velocity and mpg etc. And this is an example of ordaining something with a virtue, however this demands a rational capacity.

If there is no rational and creative capacity behind human existence, then his existence is ultimately void of true virtue. Yet, if there is a creator, who designed each one of us, then he must have ordained a standard of acceptability to govern how should humans function. Just as we ordain a standard of acceptable functioning when we build a car in order for it to do what we designed and built it to do. But what separates humans from cars is the notion of free will, which is the capacity to choose between doing the creator’s will or not. If this is true then only by doing the creator’s will can people achieve a meaningful and purpose driven existence. Each character I mentioned had no free will for they were entirely subject to the influence of the authors will, thus they achieved precisely what the author intended them to achieve by the end of the story.

Now the question I give to you is will you choose to believe that your existence is ultimately meaningless and thus you have no moral obligation outside of promoting your own personal happiness for the remainder of your temporary existence, or will you choose to believe that your existence was intended to be meaningful because it was designed by God and thus you have a moral obligation to Him and ought to strive to discover his will for your life in order to achieve a truly purpose driven life.

Hope

The stench of my failure is filling my lungs.
Sorrow seems to consume my thoughts,
As my mind wrestles with this condemnation that I can’t escape.
The mistakes of my past become the only reality that I know.
I come to realize that all I am is a shadow of what I could have been.

Now my tears are the only comfort I can find,
And I ponder this meaningless existence that has been my life.
I begin to reason if I should persist,
In this never-ending cycle of failures and intangible dreams.
As I struggle with my thoughts,
I cry out for rest in this storm of my anguish.

I realize that all this world had to offer me has left me empty.
Though I still search for something that will ease my suffering.
I wonder how can there be reason for living,
If all you are and have can be stripped from you in an instance.
Purpose seems to have become only a hopeless dream,
As my will has been spent and wasted in pursuit of happiness in this life.

The only strength that is left in me is spilling out,
As my voice cries out into the emptiness of my life.
I soon understand that it is in vain,
For the darkness soon begins to overwhelm my senses.
It seems that all I can do now is give into the void, and end my suffering.

All of a sudden my eyes fall upon a single star in the emptiness of space.
It soon pierces the darkness around me,
And its light fills the emptiness of my soul.
The tears of my sorrow disappeared,
And for once I felt a peace that I could not explain.
I ask myself, what could this be that offers my worthless soul hope?

Before I had a chance to think, my reality soon faded,
And my thoughts become no more my own,
as a vision fills my mind.
I find myself upon a hill,
and my vision is clouded by a dense fog.
I suddenly feel rain drops begin to pour down on me.
When my mind clears, I hear a voice crying out in agony.
Yet it was filled with a love that I had never sensed before.

“Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
As I hear the words, my body gives way and I fall on my face.
Tears pour from eyes as I hear His last words, “It is finished.”
The fog around me soon fades, but I am unable to find the will to move.

After several moments of struggling with my thoughts,
I find the strength to raise my head.
The form of a cross slowly fills my vision.
It is drenched in the blood and tears of an innocent man.
Whose body was torn and broken for my transgressions.

Before I can comprehend what I am saying, I cry out,
“My God, My God why did you suffer for a worthless failure such as I? I am not worthy of this love!”

Then as my words fade into the midst,
My reality once again changes.
I now find myself in a valley,
And as I look around I see an empty tomb.
It seems that here I find rest,
A peace that I had longed for.
Words could not explain this moment of pure bliss.
All at once, I felt a hand touch my shoulder.
I then hear a voice, “My son, why hast thou forsaken my sacrifice?”

Tears overwhelm me as I come to realize,
That I have been living my life with vain ambitions.
The price had been paid so that I might be found,
So that I might find a reason worth living and dying for.
I now knew what had to be done, and I fell to my knees.
“Father I sacrifice to you my will, I am your servant.
Here I am Lord use me...”


I now live for something beyond this mortal world.
For I have a duty to live as a beacon of hope to others.
His sacrifice gave me a hope and a passion for living this life.

I only hope that you also may find the peace,
And fulfillment that I have found in knowing my Savior Jesus Christ.

Though remember that this road is a hard one, it is said to be the road less traveled for one reason: it goes against human nature and reasoning.
Never forget that it is never too late,
For if you stumble He is always there to pick you up,
All you have to do is let Him.

The Son of Man

Our oneness with the Son of Man is because of the unity of our purpose in glorifying our Heavenly Father by completing those tasks that He assigns to us as His individual children, so that despite our diversity resulting from His Godness and our lack thereof, we are united purposefully in the faculty of our common dasein by which we carry out our role in preserving the effectual operation of God’s creation. We perform this task of stewardship by subduing creation and keeping it in complete equilibrium with His will, which has been the eternal virtue of dasein, along with worship that God instituted upon the point of origination of the human race. Additionally, our oneness with the Son of Man is because of our common identity that holds quite true even in view of our significant differences. This common identity is rooted in the fact that the same vision that illuminates His specific “self” illuminates our specific “selves” in such a way that His identity and ours subjectively correspond with an objective and cohesive Vision of Truth, known as the Eternal Truth of Dasein.


The very fabric of Eternal Truth, designating who we truly are according to God’s eternal plan for Creation, is the exact same fabric of Eternal Truth designating who the Son of Man truly is according to God’s eternal plan for Creation, because each of us are essential and unique components of the unified whole that is the Eternal Story of the Children of God. The Son of Man and us take up the same enterprise of acting as Stewards of Creation, though His exclusive position of sonship entitles Him to act as King over His fellow brethren in accordance with God’s eternal plan made clear in the following passage: “So God, your God, has anointed You over Your companions with the oil of rejoicing” (Heb. 1:9/ Ps. 45:6-7). Thus, we are distinctively unified with the Son of Man alone out of the persons of the Trinity in such a way that we are companions with Him; and thus are one in purpose, while we still remain different from Him in the diversity that accompanies His exclusive characteristics of Godness that belong to Him alone among the children of God. In light of this deliberation, concerning our relationship with Him in the form of a God-relationship, we see clearly that this specific aspect of the God-relationship between man and the Son of Man bears the greatest amount of experiential fruit during the eternal blossoming of the God-relationship in the Kingdom of Righteousness.