Genesis 1:

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

2 And the earth was without form; and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was Light

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness….

We submitted, in the previous meditation, that life is more than what we presently spend our entire life struggling to attain or to acquire or to achieve; it is beyond what we ceaselessly spend time praying about on the top of the mountains. Existence of man on earth is more than making a great name, though no one condemns that; life is not so much about the miracles that we fixate on, either, though it is certainly thrilling in the present dispensation and, definitely, it is part of the gospel. ‘Living in the miraculous, as many boast about and teach, may be hyperactivity, but certainly not the purpose of existence. The purpose of man is what is tagged as destiny. The destiny of man on earth is not his making and completing that project that makes him indelible in the mind of earth’s inhabitants. Time and chances will swallow it up; it’ll fade out of memory. Even when it’s something as great as building a university for God’s glory. Destiny is not attaining some human-defined standards of being super brilliant on the planet earth, though as long as the thrills of honour lasts, it’s a tree of life – a satisfaction to the soul as one laps it all up in becoming the envy of the world and turning up to be an institution and a phenomenon that happens to the world, even as an object of researches and studies.

Above all these, the heart yearns for something deeper, something man cannot define or explain; it’s an elusive mystery. Even the philosophers have not been able to pin it down. “Which,” they ask, is primary: spirit or matter?” Some of these specially wisdom-endowed individuals attest that the present is a poor imitation of the spirit.  This means that the heart believes that the spirit is deeper. The deep calls to the deep. The other extreme of this doctrine is the materialist who believes that  man is matter in motion – dialectical materialism. To these thinkers, material or matter is primary, that is, superior.

Apostle Paul writes, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are men most miserable.” You see, each measure of earth-glory attained will fade away or decay. There is always a limit placed that reads, “This far you can come, and no more.” The glory of the moment soon gives way to despair. Ask the celebrities and the super achievers. Apostle Peter knew this, writing in one of his letters, “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass wither and the flower thereof falleth away” (1 Peter 1:24). Pastors Olabode and James are not tired of not telling us that there is nothing that can now be attained by someone today that hasn’t been attained first by someone before noe; there is no glory you have now that hasn’t been superseded in the past.”

We are here on planet earth on the journey to destiny. This destiny is priced out of this earth, this life; it is not there! But what is the definition of this destiny?

 

Lord, we wait on you to reveal Your purpose in creation. Open our eye of understand and revelation in Jesus.

Thank You, Lord