When one is spiritually reborn, he sees at one and the same
moment God and self�justice and guilt�power and helplessness�a holy law and a broken commandment�eternity and time�the purity of the Creator, and the filthiness of the creature. And these things he sees�not merely as declared in the Bible�but as revealed in himself as personal realities, involving all his happiness or all his misery in time and in eternity. Thus it is with him as though a new existence had been communicated, and as if for the first time he had found there was a God! It is as though all his days he had been asleep, and were now awakened�asleep upon the top of a mast, with the raging waves beneath�as if all his past life were a dream, and the dream were now at an end. He has been hunting butterflies�blowing soap bubbles�fishing for minnows�picking daisies�building houses of cards�and idling life away like an idiot or a madman. He had been perhaps wrapped up in a religious profession�advanced even to the office of a deacon, or mounted in a pulpit. He had learned to talk about Christ, and election, and grace, and fill his mouth with the language of Zion. But what did he experimentally know of these things? Nothing, absolutely nothing! Ignorant of his own ignorance (of all kinds of ignorance the worst)�he thought himself rich, and increased with goods, and to have need of nothing�and knew not that he was wretched, and
Man's thoughts are many, and all subject to this existence which was made, fashioned for him. Each man and woman (golems) are called to service to the One Who hath made all, one as a vessel of mercy prepared afore unto glory, and as a vessel of wrath, fitted to destruction.
Men have no say in that vocation to which they are called.
One knowledgeable in the mysterious purposes of the Word of God, may desire to share with others the purposes and power of the calling of God, but it is not truly possible.
Consider this, saint..
Who can describe to and/or for the saint, the workings which will be solely unique to his or her existence?
Though we are made to feel that we are to be comparable to another, and often strive, albeit foolishly, to be as others, there will never be another you, and there is none who can take your place. You are, as David wrote, fearfully and wonderfully made. You are wondrously fashioned, so that no one who has ever existed, or shall ever exist, will ever be as you. From your DNA to your facial and anatomical data, such as your finger prints and retinal vein structure, there will never be another "YOU", and no one can describe for you, that to which you are called, though he she may desire.
This, individual uniqueness, is what Isaiah is referring to, when he wrote, "I am YHWH, that is my name, and my glory will I not share with another!" (Isaiah 42:8)
You can go out and lay in the grass, and look at each blade, but you will never find two that are the same. The same thing goes for the tree leaves, or the clouds. You will never see two that are alike. From the grains of sand that covers this earth, to the myriads of men and animals, there has never been two which are alike, and there never shall be.
No, no man is capable of describing the path designed for another, that end to which they were fashioned, though he may desire.
No man may change or alter his destiny.
He that was created to serve as a vessel of wrath, his thoughts and behavior, lead him as a slave, ever drawing him/her to that ultimate purpose, the everlasting destruction reserved for the Devil and his followers:
"I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Jude 1:5-6
He that was created to serve as a vessel of mercy, his thoughts and behavior, lead him as a slave, ever drawing him/her to that ultimate purpose, for which they were and are created, which is the everlasting habitation reserved for the saints, those chosen to be heirs of eternal life:
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:" Matthew 25:31-34
To know God, is to not think to know Him, and more importantly, it is not to set boundaries upon Him, or limitations upon that which He can and will do.
Though you may desire to shape your life, in some minute way, the path was all determined for you, and the minute details which will ultimately lead you to that destiny, started in motion before the world was fashioned.
