“You’re Lucky”
Every once in a while someone tells me I am lucky. I gave up on luck years and years ago. I believe instead in the God Who blesses. Everything good that happens to me is one of His blessings. Everything bad that happens to me is something He has allowed because He is my loving Father Who knows what will help me most.
Sometimes I wonder if people talk about luck because it somehow makes them feel better about their decisions, or about their unwillingness to make them. A homeschooling friend poured her heart out to me one day because someone had just talked to her about her great kids. She cried, something I had never seen her do before. The other person had made my friend feel as if she was just one of the lucky ones who got good kids. As a mother who had worked hard to be a good one, who had poured her life into her children, and who had been willing to make sacrifices and tough decisions, it hurt that someone thought she was just lucky.
Books have been written and churches have divided over differences of opinion about the relationship between God’s blessings and providence on the one hand and human decisions and effort on the other. I’m not qualified to make a theological argument about that, but I will tell you where my heart is. I intend to spend the rest of my life pouring that life into my family and praying hard for God’s blessings on them. The end result? Well, luck won’t have anything to do with it.
So then, my beloved,
just as you have always obeyed,
not as in my presence only,
but now much more in my absence,
work out your salvation with fear and trembling;
for it is God who is at work in you,
both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Philippians 2:12-13, NASB
Amen! I completely agree with you, Charlene. Luck, fate, karma, kismet – whatever you want to call it – has nothing whatsoever to do with the good things in my life. They all come 100% unmerited from the right hand of blessing of my loving Heavenly Father. To Him be all the glory!