Lucky?

A couple of weeks ago was at Ikea with a good friend looking for things for my house. Walking into the store, I immediately saw a piece of furniture that was exactly what I was looking for. To make matters even better this particular piece was marked down 75%.

Needless to say, I purchased the piece. As I was leaving the store, my friend turned to me with a big smile and said, "Keith, this is your lucky day!"

Lucky is not a word I use except when talking about the jeans I wear. I do not consider myself a lucky person. I do not wish people good luck. My life is not about luck. Why?

The word luck means an unpredictable factor influencing events or circumstances for good or ill. The unpredictable factor in this definition means impersonal chance. To say I am having a lucky day is to say that my life is like the roll of dice. I am at the mercy of a force that is random without purpose or meaning. I don't believe that for a moment.

My life is not a craps game.

So what do I believe? I believe that God made the world and everything in it and that He is the Lord of heaven and earth. The Bible tells me that that "from one man God made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth." The Bible goes on to say that God "determines the times set for men and the exact places where they should live ... for in Him we live and move and have our being."

This is hardly the stuff of luck. This is the truth that there is a God who governs my life. This is the truth about my Heavenly Father who is not only sovereign over the world He created, but most importantly the one who governs my life.

Lucky? No, blessed! I am blessed by God and thankful.