For reasons that were cast before I made my first decision or harbored my first thought. How then can man claim his own destiny when achieving, adopting or considering the road before him? All strength of sinew, mind or heart and voice were predetermined to be at my disposal. Certainly improving upon or mastering those talents and techniques available to create wealth, health, reward or expertise required my participation and may have been shaped by my level of commitment. But, all men were set to purpose by their predicament.

How then may I revel of self worth or glory? All is owed to someone, whether or not I accept acknowledgement of that origin. That is the beginning of choice, the acceptance of the Truth as guide and Gospel, the embarkation from darkness into the light or subsequent retreat into the shadows of my own casting. Denial and doubt, near twins, set the possibility for future path. I am not my own, not can I escape the bonds of this life and hereafter of my own volition. Only the choice that must be rendered will determine these outcomes, outcomes that include only those presented by the hand and mind that proffered my gifts.

So, to achieve the summit of my limitations or surpass them I must inquire as to the expectations of the Hand which made me. There is no path through my own imagination, intelligence or experience but through the understanding of my design. That requires an invitation and introduction to my designer. The defining question; Do you know the King? For it is meeting, accepting, acknowledging and obeying His expectations, rules and outcomes through which I will find my place in eternity. The only success worth remembering is did I hear, do and follow my maker’s direction, for no outcome, reward or mark shall be fulfillment of my tasking without having first been listened.

Am I here for I Am? Does the shepherd’s voice ring clarion above each and every call or draw? Do I know what the King wants of me through study, prayer and waiting upon His command before walking my own roads? Let me not simply look to the beginnings but to the outcomes, for His may never be ventured without His direction, intervention and supernatural authority/power. That is my choice to be here for His making or depart for my own temporary understanding. I choose to be Here, before the King in reward or failure for this road is never taken by those who have chosen otherwise. This is my success, this is my design, to be here for better or worse until death loses its grip upon me as I walk into His waiting Arms and Eternity with God.