Who Controls Your Destiny?

by GCG

What are you going to be doing 5 years from now? 10 years? 15 years? It all 

depends on your destiny. Destiny is your future. Some people say that your destiny is 

set and there's no way to change it. Other people believe that there are a lot of ways 

things could turn out. The question I was told to answer by my Language Arts curriculum

 is: Who controls your destiny? To do that, I'll take the book series, Harry Potter. Then, I'll talk a little about my own life.

The author of  Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling admitted that she used the “Macbeth 

effect”  in her work. In the play Macbeth, by Shakespeare, this man Macbeth hears a 

prophecy that's really weird, decides to act on it, and, like in almost all Shakespeare 

plays, ends up dead. But the important part was, what if Macbeth had never heard the 

prophecy? What if, in Harry Potter, Voldemort never heard the prophecy:

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches 

Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies 

The Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not 

And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives 

If Voldemort hadn't heard the prophecy and tried to kill Harry, or heard the 

prophecy and went to kill Neville (the only other person who fit the prophecy)

 instead? What would have happened? There have actually been a couple of 

fan-fictions discussing this idea. There was this REALLY weird one where 

Hermione (?) traveled back in to time to kill Voldemort before he has a chance to kill

 Harry's family. She then ends up in this love triangle between her, Sirius Black, and

 Remus Lupin. But the point of these fan-fictions, is, what if Harry was destined for

 something else? Would he fall in love with Slytherin Tracey Davis if he killed Voldemort

 that night in the graveyard? Who controls HIS destiny?

Maybe it's different in real life. What is MY destiny? Personally, I think that your destiny could be anything. It's not set, your choices set it. But no matter what choices we make, God knows and it fits into His plan perfectly, and he will help us on to the destiny he has for us, if we let him. If we let God help us make decisions, He can help us through life. Will you let Him control your destiny?