Don't Plan on Reaching Your Destination if You Don't Get Up and Go There

Sound advice, "Don't plan on getting there, if you don't get up and go there!" Simple enough wouldn't you say? Problem is too many people want to sit around and wait for some type of divine intervention or the day I win the lottery before they plan on setting forth to reach their destination. Destiny is a funny thing, many people think of it as something inevitable, predetermined, fate. If it doesn't matter what we do or even if we do or don't do something then we don't have very much control over our lives and I just don't believe that. I choose to think of it more in line with how the late American orator and politician William Jennings Bryan is quoted as saying, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved." We do not know our destiny, yet we have a plan and it is our responsibility to go out and work to see our plan come true. Along the way things may happen that alter the direction of what our plan was. What many may consider a stumbling block to our destiny may actually be the next step in reaching our true destination. We must not allow roadblocks to keep us from moving forward. As the apostle Paul reminds us in Romans 8:28 "All things work together for good". Then in verse :31 Paul provides comfort for us along the journey by adding that "If God is for us then who can be against us?" Believe me there is a plan for your life.
     Go forward today with the mindset that you want to  reach and fulfill your destiny. Do not be deceived thinking that your destiny is an one way street that leads to a final destination. Thank God for each diversion and even the stumbling blocks along the way, because that bump in the road might actually be the bump that places you on the path God intends you to be on to fulfill His plan for your life. Be willing to look at each day and find the good in it because, "This is the day that the Lord hath made I will rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24
     Move forward, press on, and never give up, nor never give in!
Coach Carter