A young chap went to a soothsayer to inquire about the hope of his future.
Right before his eyes, the soothsayer drew two circles. One in white and the other in black.
He then put a millipede in between the circles, saying "if the millipede crawls into the white circle, your future will be bright and very great, but if it crawls into the black circle, then you are finished and doomed! No future at all!".
As soon as the insect was dropped in between the circles, it began crawling towards the white circle.
This chap was super-excited. But suddenly, as it got to the edge of the circle, it turned back and began crawling away from the white circle towards the black one.
The boy watched as the insect progressively moved farther away from his desire to his doom.
Then, just when the insect got to the edge of the black circle, this chap steetched his hands, picked it up and quickly but carefully dropped it in the white circle.
The soothsayer in shock, never seen anyone intervenes in his own matter, watching all the while, asked the chap what he did and why he did what he did.
The boy smiled & simply replied by saying "I cannot sit here and watch my destiny go down the gloom doom! While I can still do something about it & to change its course. My destiny is in my hands."
He got up and left. Many of us are behaving like the flip side of this chap. We leave too many things to chance. We are laid back.
Many pray without a corresponding and conscious effort, forgetting that faith without work is dead (it's written in the holy books)
What you don't want, you don't watch. If you do nothing, nothing positive will happen to you.
There's a time for everything under the sun. There's a time to plant. . .a time to weed. . .a time to water the plants and a time to harvest the fruits.
There's a time to close your eyes in prayers and a time to open them for some serious actions.
May God give us all with understanding. Take authority over what you can and then leave the rest to God to perfect.
Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:
https://steemit.com/advice/@johnclever/the-step-you-take-in-life-matters
how can somebody change his destiny
Start by using ur mouth writely then work on ur mind,what i mean is your thought. Am going to do a post on mind and thought u can follow me up
God understanding is all we need to get things done right
If you do noting , no positive result.....I love that quote
Your life is what you make of it
Quite inspirational @sammik
Yes U dnt just seat down and b waiting for things to happened no!u go out there and make it happened
Nice 1
Great and touching post
Very true
Hard wrking and prayer will make your destiny to be great
Quite inspiring,a morale booster.Destiny can always be reshapened to your desire,it begins with you
Nice one
Food for thought, that's why we suppose to be use our mouth to decree a better and positive things to our life.
Amen
Congratulations @sammik! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPNice one... @Lexico12
Word brother..most people leave their life to fate..believing what will be, will be..forgetting that we were given freedom of will do we could act..we pray for success without putting the required effort..Nice one!
Yesss i am the captain of my soul. I can't subscribe to common notion that our destiny was written before we were born.
The Bible says that with the heart man believes but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Peace!