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DESTINY 2010
By Kayan Campbell
2009 has come and gone and long awaited 2010 has dawned new light on us almost unexpectedly. What seemed like one of the longest year packed with local as well as international dilemma has passed quite quickly and we must be grateful for life if nothing else as Christians/non-Christians.
Last year, God impressed the whole “Don’t waste your life” (DWYL) anthem on my life and while I didn’t accomplish all I would have liked to, it certainly taught me that ‘only what’s done for Christ will surely last’ and that’s essentially what the DWYL statement seeks to enforce in the hearts and minds of every Christian. Our lives here on earth are for Christ and involve living and working for Him.
Colossians 3:1-17 reminds us that as Christians our lives are hidden in Christ, we have put on the new man which is renewed (note the past tense) in knowledge after the image of Him that created him (i.e. God the Creator) and henceforth whatsoever we do in word or deed it should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus giving all glory and thanks to Him.
While we tend to lose focus on the real centre of Christian life, we tend to forget our task here on earth - our God given destiny. Destiny according to Merriam-Webster & Word reference dictionaries has an anglo-french root which speaks to destiny as either an event, entity (cause) or a state (condition, circumstances). From a Christian perspective destiny speaks to eternal life with God.
Less than a month ago God gave me Destiny 2010 for the New Year. Honestly, I thought nothing of it at first, thinking it was merely stemming from Jermaine Edward’s new album entitled ‘Destiny’, but even that should have been a clue. I am certain God must have placed some word on Jermaine’s heart to entitle his album that especially after Island Worship 1 & 2, perhaps many like myself expected an Island Worship 3. Whatever that was I believe God is saying as we enter this new year 2010 that we should focus on making our destiny/destination solely God centred, because Paul clearly tells that only God alone has immortality (1 Timothy 6:13 - 16) and it only on Christ’s return that those called to Him will put off this ‘mortal’ for ‘immortality’ (I Corinthians 15: 51 - 53).
Just so you know, this really is noting new, most reggae lovers familiar with the likes of Buju Banton can recall his song “destiny” in which he speaks of wanting ‘Jah’ to grant him the ability of ‘ruling’ his destiny, clearly implying that we really aren’t in charge and all that we have on earth is given by God, even the very time we have been given to spend here on earth.
Are we really concerned about our destiny - our ultimate destination? Is it one of eternal life with God?
If not, what else are we concerned about?
For indeed Christ is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3: 9). Christ is willing to give us that gift of eternal life… will we accept it and the conditions that apply accordingly?
References
http://www.scribd.com/doc/859/What-Is-Your-Destiny
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/Destiny
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Destiny
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