Quote: Originally posted by Pick-4_Master on January 09, 2004
But I must admit in this particular case something tells me that what your saying just ain't right and it's not the Devil.
about what?
that there are certain things that "we" are incapable of acheiving ourselves? because that statement is blantanly obvious. certain acheivements in life are only attainable when the right amount of circumstance meets ability and BOTH meet fate. some people can never attain what they would like for various reasons. it may be physical, it may be mental. there are all kinds of reasons why people cannot attain a goal.
i would never say that people shouldn't try, but just be realistic about what a person can/cannot become. anyway you shake it, false hope is a waste of time. it is a humanistic lie to say to someone that you can be ANYTHING you want to be "if" you try hard enough. that is not true. what is true is when you cheer someone on to be all that they were "meant to" be. sometimes the answer to all of this isn't chrystal clear and so we make the best stab at it.
if you believe in God at all, then you know he has a design. within the confines of that design, we were meant for certain things. not everyone is meant for the same thing, which is the base of humanistic thinking. you have certain talents that i do not possess and that is because your life was designed for a different purpose than mine was. you have the choice to bypass that design, or you can live within it. that is why i said that people can waste their time pursuing things they were never meant to be or have, all because they didn't like the original plans and all because they bought into that lie that said they could become anything they wanted to be.
we do not have near the control over our lives that your line of thinking suggests. but God does. he is the one that opens and shuts doors. he is the dispenser of talents and opportunities. believe me when i say that i want people to succeed and be all that they can be. i just won't sit back and let people buy into that "we are ALL meant to". some are and some are not and because there is a design behind it, "neither" is a barometer of success. success that lasts and is meaningful is being what you were designed to be. nothing more and nothing less.
what "qualifications" did the person have that told you...you were "meant to"? you see that there are many people out there telling people that, but have no "authority" to do so as only God knows the future. what "special gift" did she have? this world is riddled with people giving out false hope just so people can "feel" better about their future. i am curious as to why God didn't tell you first and instead told someone else. if it is within his plan, he would have told you.
secondly please explain where i departed in the way that God does things by intimating i have "middle ages" mentality. i will be glad to show you thru history on how God has dealt with his creation and that i have represented that accurately here. that he created us to live within his design and that people have removed themselves from that design, prefering their own over Gods. look at our society and how self sufficient we have become. the "i can do it all on my own and i will consult God ONLY when i need him" is the norm rather than the exception. the "if i am meant to" is as current today as it was in the beginning of creation. holding God off at arms length and then using him as our personal concierge is "modern"...
"you are either meant to, or you are not".....and your adjustment to that will determine your level of peace in life.
"the LOT is cast into the lap and it's every decision is from the Lord" ...proverbs
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