Jeremiah 1:5 says: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. YAHAWAH was speaking to Jeremiah and told him that the plan for him to be a prophet among the nation of Israel was preordained since the beginning of time. The meaning of predestination in layman’s terms is the belief that everything that happens has already been determined by God. In other words, there’s no such thing as free will. This thing called life is essentially the LORD’s movie, and we all have been given our scripts to be played out here on Earth.

I just watched the movie titled Destined starring Cory Hardrict, who’s one of my favorite actors and is vastly underrated in my opinion. He plays the main character Rasheed, and the story begins with him selling drugs next to an abandon building in inner-city Detroit as a teenager. He then makes the mistake of making a deal with an undercover cop posing as a customer, and the story goes back and forth with two possible outcomes after he tries to escape. In one scenario, he gets caught and serves some time, and in the other, he gets away. Rasheed ends up getting his criminal record sealed and becomes an architect in the first alternate reality, and Sheed builds up his street empire and is one of the most feared drug dealers in Detroit in the second alternate reality.

This movie was very spiritual―it shows how one event can not only change the course of one person’s life, but it can also alter the course of other people’s lives. It also implied that no matter what path Rasheed chose, the outcome was ultimately the same without giving too much of the movie away. The LORD had determined everyone’s beginning and end before birth, and that very fact scares me to the point of always striving to be righteous and obedient. To fear the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding (Psalms 9:10). All praise, honor, and glory go to Yahawah Bahasham Yahawashi.