Chances

I believe in creating opportunities for things to take place, but I do not know of the outcomes. Neither do you, you or YOU. The unknown is not prophesised nor determined by us, but by the Creator as in accordance to the Will of God.

Some believe in fate, and some would count the stars and even their birthdates, birth-time and whatever just to ensure the accuracy of their future. If we are created by chance, why don't we chance it all and live each day as if it's a gift of life? Should we even need to refer or depart our monies to fortune-tellers, bomohs, gypsies and their crystal balls and other witch doctors just to take a glimpse into our future? This alone shows that we all long to know our purpose in life.

Yes, we are all created for a purpose in life. 'Chances' of our creation and existence, and whatever scientists or others' self-proclaimed genius ways of predicting the future by coining modern or archaic words still do not apease our minds of what and why things happened they way they did, or are they way they are. Yeah, acceptance is either by 'taking things with a pinch of salt'... or 'take it as a guide to live peacefully'... as some may say... but why the dying need to know if one still want to take it half seriously? Something's wrong somewhere. Why? Because we want to know - what's our purpose, and what will befall on us before we fulfill our purpose in life!
Well, let's look into 'chances' again... could things happen by chance? Is our existence too, by chance? Purposeless and meaningless? Molecules plucked out of the air to form beings and things around us, like all those said in the 'big bang theory?' I don't believe in this. Somehow, somewhere, our lives are created for a loaded purpose. Such purpose is based on our calling for whatever we need to fulfill before our time on earth is over. May it be a calling in our vocation in life, or peoples' lives that we are supposed to touch or unknowingly influenced or whatever. Likewise, people who come into our lives, through various types of relationships, i.e. friendship or whatever-ship, they leave little footprints and fingerprints in our lives that will never make us the same as before. Lessons to learn, experiences to wisen us up, making sense of who, what and how we are like for what suits us the best. All these entail our skills, our innate special little ways, discoveries of ourselves in relation to what is around us too as in 'why are we created?', 'what are we to fulfill?', 'what are our challenges in life?'

In reference to all the above, how could there be a chance that we are created? No, no, no, forget about going back to parents who did not do family planning. Still, one should know that it's not that easy to conceive, and nor is it by chance. It's all about timing, a God-bestowed timing. Believe it or not? So, did we just appear out of no where? We know that mommy and daddy got together and that's how we popped out. How about our forefathers... tracing right up to the very first being on earth? There must be a creator, isn't it? (Sorry, Atheists and Agnostics - what other proofs do you need on finding the existence of God, and also the presence of God?).

Anyway, apart from us being created, there are more amazing programming within us to lead a purposeful life. Did this all happen in a big bang, as in those of the famous scientific theory? Nah, nah, nah. Let's look at ourselves genetically - we are individuals with complexed DNAs. DNAs that are inherently programmed to make us as 'us' - special - definitely 'one of a kind' to make up for a teeny weeny 'lack' that the world needs. Yes, one of a kind that is loaded with a purpose of life in the Will of God. One might start asking, 'why are murderers, rapists and cheaters created?' Well, that's another whole story of the spiritual warfare that we are living in. We'll get into that another day. Now, bear with me on this one... A life that is created, is programmed to make a difference in the way the world ticks. Eventhough we may perceive ourselves as being no more effective than a drop in the ocean, but still, we make a difference even in our daily nuances!

Life as it is require us to go through grinds, moulds, shredders and all sorts that one can 'analogise'. Such, are not cruel happenings / plans to make us suffer, but to perfect us to be more focused and better beings. Some learn, and some just didn't because they also exercise their choices in obeying and disobeying - I'll call this 'tuning off the calling'. Right, we call 'sufferings' as learning experiences. Through these, we are developed, 'renovated' inwardly to adapt to changes in life. Changes that hones each of us, individually to fulfill a purpose in creating meanings for both ourselves and those that are around us. Isn't the Creator a genius in programming all these? How can we ever be free agents out of thin air that is created by chance, as science has been debunking the Bible and God's promise of Providence (that is when one seeks the kingdom first)?

The thought of being 'free agents' in running our lives without paying tribute to fulfilling our purpose will drive us into the wilderness (figuratively, maybe literally for some!). Being free agents or being calling-fulling-agents, we are not exempted from running into walls of different degrees of hardness till we 'see', or 'find' a way around it... but we always do it with a purpose, to fight for our survival in wanting to know 'what's the end deal after we've completed such rough patches in life?' Do you see what I mean by life becoming pretty meaningless if there isn't a purpose in life? Already, we absorb enough through our flawed little selves that contribute to our complexities. Above it all, we have to deal with our emotions! Everything seems to exercise all our range of emotions whether we like it or not, because 'we are not in control' of everything. Some may think that it's all in the mind, but isn't survival all about inner strength and believing that we do not live for ourselves alone in self love and full-on selfishness? If this is so, why do we need to live amongst others, why not live right in the middle or a dessert, as a hermit and out of sight and mind of any other beings?

Right, 'chances' are that, if we are to live without a calling, nor a will and a purpose, we will truly be all haggard and burnt out before our time. Hence, leaving us high and dry without a zest for life, aimlessly seeking without understanding the powerful, full-fledged message that there's God's providence when we seek the kingdom first. Why do people seek in the first place? Because all of us are looking into fulfilling a purpose. If those who are yet to know his/her purpose in life, they are actively or even passively seeking till they find meanings and signs in life.

Yeah, yeah, we all speak about 'but we have to fend ourselves, we have bills to pay'. True, we all have bills to pay at the end of the day, and thanks to the fall of man that dates back to Adam's and Eve's days, where the garden of Eden, a.k.a. garden of providence is taken away from man forevermore.

Still, such histories, Biblically, and also of those in books of mortal beings, would have given us all an insight of how we cannot be 'free agents' to do as we will, but to till we seek until 'Thy kingdom comes as it is in heaven...' - quoted from the Lord's prayer. The only meaning to the word 'chance' by itself is to 'give a chance' for others when they have wronged us, by forgiving them with an understanding of God's mercy and grace... just as how we need God's mercy and grace for being protected and have survived to live to this day. How's that for giving chances by giving an opportunity for others to fulfill their purpose in life? People need to complete stages in their lives to move on to learn things either in tandem with current things, or to break free from the past to go on to to fulfill their purpose in life. Instead of chancing things, we put in efforts by believing that we live in God's Will. A free will that is made easier if we abide to the calling, instead of going against it and only come round after insurmountable lessons. So, are we 'still' created by chance? With all these, I'll leave them to your own thoughts.