Chapter 6: Predestination
- By Kefa N. Mkombola.
- More of his Divine Principle Poems.
- More articles about the Divine Principle in the ERW course, Divine Principle.
Predestination is a controversial topic with many people,
That our Heavenly Father who sees all,
Controls every aspect of man’s life-season,
Prosperity and decline, all things great and little,
Pass as predestined by God who’s like a director in our life’s sequel.
There are some verses which support this train of thought,
There are some verses against this of course,
Some verses say every aspect of man is controlled by God,
Some verses insist that man is his own effort,
Let’s delve more into this, let’s find out how it goes.
Predestination usually deals with God’s Will,
His Will for the our ancestors Adam and Eve,
His Will for creation, both seen and unseen,
His Will for the Heavens, Earth and Angels still,
His Will and how it is to be fulfilled.
So in predestination what is being willed?
Due to the human fall Adam and Eve couldn’t go over the hill,
They couldn’t achieve God’s ideal,
Thus God’s Will is to accomplish the purpose of creation that got killed,
In this sense, God’s Will is that this victory of restoration to be sealed.
God determines His Will before He works towards its manifestation,
God determined that human beings accomplish the purpose of creation,
When they failed He determined to accomplish this through the providence of restoration,
Through the ways of goodness he must bring about its realization,
To make sure man arrives at his original destination.
God is the absolute Being, unique, eternal and unchanging,
Therefore his purpose of creation must be exhibiting the same thing,
“I have spoken, I will do it” God, said this,
And even if the person assigned with His mission fails to accomplish it,
God will choose another person to shoulder the mission and finish it.
When human beings complete their portion of responsibility,
Then God’s purpose of creation can be completed & become a reality.
Although God’s Will to realize His purpose is invisible like gravity,
God predestines the process of its accomplishment conditionally,
Contingent upon the central figures’ five percent portion of responsibility.
Man’s five percent must be completed in addition to God’s ninety five percent,
The human portion might look quite small, comparing a dollar to a cent,
Yet to humans, this is 100 percent of our effort in real sense.
Requiring full investment of our being, no sitting on the fence,
But if we fail, all other accomplishments will be spoken in past tense.
Adam and Eve were to become the good ancestors of humanity,
By obeying God’s Word, they were to have evaded any inanity,
Man’s mind and body would have been whole, not in this state of insanity,
Man’s effort being very important to God’s plan, the giving all mentality,
God needs man very much; I put this strongly to you for clarity.
God’s providence is to restore man to the original state he intended,
And in due time all the people’s relationship with God will be mended,
It will not happen instantly, in a blink of an eye not all will be ended,
But it will require all effort from humanity for this world to be recreated,
And bring humanity to where they were originally predestined.
