This week I heard somewhere that it is man’s destiny to sin. Then it must follow that it is God’s destiny to save man from sin. Or is it?
Does this mean that God is under some kind of obligation?
I looked up the word “destiny”. The Webster’s New World Dictionary says that destiny is the seemingly inevitable succession of events, or fate. To be destined is to be predetermined on a course. Then I looked up “fate”. It is, according to the dictionary, the power supposed to determine the outcome of events, or destiny.
So destiny is fate and fate is destiny.
I wonder if it was a destiny or a fate of man to sin in the beginning? If so, it seems to me that when Adam blamed God for the whole mess, he might have been in the right of it. How could God get upset with Adam and Eve for eating forbidden fruit if He made it their fate to do so? Then, did that make it mandatory for God to come up with the solution?
The way Genesis reads, God made a perfect world. He meant for His creatures to live in harmony and peace. He came to walk in the cool of the day with Adam in marvelous companionship.
Yet it was spoiled. Adam and Eve squandered the wonderful gift of free will choice. Because of that, perhaps it is the destiny of man to sin. We seem to be helpless at stopping it.
Yet God, in His infinite Sovereignty, already knew it would happen. Because of His compassion, not a mandatory obligation, He made a way to redeem us. Not destiny or fate—but love. Knowing that if we stayed in Garden, we would live evil lives and be forever cut off from Him and His love, He sent our first father and mother out of the Garden with a promise that a Savior would one day come to earth and bring us back to Himself.
How grateful I am that Love rules over me and not destiny at all.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you” I Peter 1:3,4.
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