The "What If" Fallacy...

"...Sometimes darkness can show you the light..."

There are too many questions that oftentimes torment the minds of men into stifling stagnation. A state that if prolonged can disease a soul into a depressive nothingness. For this cause...I write tonight to provide two examples as to why "what if..." is a useless endeavor.

David was a King ordained by God. Blessed with victories in battle and the love of his people. His concubine could satiate the appetite of the most lustful man one could ever imagine knowing. Through him...God would bring about His greatest work. Through his line...Yeshua Hamashiach (Jesus the Christ) would be born into the world. Yet with all these blessings, David took a stroll one night to entertain his idle mind and began something that had the potential to destroy both him and his kingdom. He saw a beautiful woman named Bathsheba bathing on a rooftop. He decided to summon her and sleep with her even though she was married to one of his most faithful soldiers. Making matters worse, Bathsheba would soon find out she was pregnant. To cover his disgrace, he told Uriah, her husband, to sleep with her because he'd been away so long but this faithful man did not leave his post due to the love he had for his King. David decided on another course of action since the initial attempt at a cover-up didn't work. He sent Uriah to his death by making sure he was on the front lines of the battlefield. After Uriah's death, David took Bathsheba for his wife and the child she was carrying died shortly after being born. Yet as disgraceful as this was, her next child would be known as the wisest King Israel had ever known. Furthermore, through his lineage...Jesus the Christ would be born. Why? God had a plan...

Fast forward to 1509. King Henry VIII was crowned King of England after the death of his father. He would come to marry Catherine of Aragon only to annul their marriage after falling in love with Anne Boleyn. His marriage to Anne Boleyn almost destroyed England and in time, he would sentence her to death on the trumped up charge of witchcraft. Yet before her death, they were blessed with a daughter named Elizabeth. A woman whose tenure as Queen would soon oversee one of the greatest periods England has ever known. They deemed her reign "The Golden Age". So after all the shadyness and grief his marriage to Anne Boleyn produced, it also produced an heir that is revered even to this day. Why? God had a plan...

Now what if David has shown self-control on that rooftop? There would be no Soloman. What if King Henry had decided to stay faithful to Queen Catherine? There would be no Elizabeth. How many times have you posed the "what if..." question in retrospect? Ruminating on past failures that you truly believed may have derailed your destiny and/or purpose. Folks, in all my years on this earth, I have faced what I considered many failures I felt may have ruined my purpose...only to find myself farther along on my destined path. Acknowledging this has allowed me to understand that sometimes failure is part of a universal plan that is set aside for each and every one of us. Propelling us on a purposed road that God has set us on. A road that takes into account every failure we've had or will ever have in the future before it's even laid out before us.

So take a minute and look back on your life and take stock. Lay all regret by the wayside and deem all the "what if..." questions useless exercises unworthy of holding space within your hearts and minds. It doesn't matter how old you are or what office you officiate. Understand that all the mistakes you've made have served a purpose beyond your comprehension and if you can't see past the mistakes you've made then you will never come to fully understand the necessary place they've held within the book that house the chapters of your life. Open your eyes and seek comfort accepting a truth: That so long as you decide to live on...your purpose will always live on as well...I'm out

~Moses