[PieterCasparzen]

I for one, don't like inevitability and the resignation that one is powerless to stop it.

IMHO...

People do not know what God has foreordained. From our perspective, we have no idea what tomorrow will bring.

We could receive a phone call which leads to our becoming wealthy. Or a piano could fall on our head as we walk out of a building.

Not knowing the future, we therefore have no excuse to not live according to God's Word and give a (theoretical) 100% effort.

But it is to our shame that in our supreme arrogance we think God is powerless over our little puny "decisions" we make about what will or not will happen in the future. He "sort of" participates, he participates "once in a while", he "helps things along"; all such phrases are logically inconsistent, since the Creator has power over the creation, end of story.

[Ouderkirk]

There is always a point where you resign yourself to whatever god/fate has in store for you.

It is never a pleasant experience for those of us who ascribe to the theorem that “you make your own luck” and that you can no longer influence the outcome.

I have always been able to influence almost every aspect of my life, but yet god was never one of them. I just hit the “I believe” button and moved on, rather than resist.

[Ouderkirk]

There is always a point where you resign yourself to whatever god/fate has in store for you.

It is never a pleasant experience for those of us who ascribe to the theorem that “you make your own luck” and that you can no longer influence the outcome.

I have always been able to influence almost every aspect of my life, but yet god was never one of them. I just hit the “I believe” button and moved on, rather than resist.