Luck? I think NOT!

I have been hesitant to say "Good Luck" to people, because I thought luck was defined as good things happening by coincidence and chance (which I don't believe in at all any more). The definition of luck in my dictionary reads as this, and I quote: "luck (luk) n. 1. the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping events or opportunities..." (emphasis mine).

Why don't I believe in luck? Lamentations 3:37-38 (NIV) (speaking rhetorically of course) says "Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?"

I think we found our force behind that operates in a person's life! Yes, good and bad things happen to everyone (even Christians!), but there is undoubtedly a plan! Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." I don't think the prophet Jeremiah was just speaking to the captives of Babylon in this verse. In this verse, like all verses in the Bible, God is speaking through Jeremiah, through the ages to us. Thank God that He has chosen to speak to us! Thank God it's not by chance, He PLANNED it before time! Wow, that's just amazing to me!

Lastly, one of the more famous verses in the entire Bible: Romans 8:28 (NKJV)- "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." If and when bad things do come, God promises that the end results will be good.

Pray and ask God for wisdom to see the good side to every "bad" thing that happens. Pray also that God will keep our perspectives of good and bad in line with His and we'll always be able to see that things could be worse and be thankful that they're not!

Transformed!

The posts below were written when this blog was in its old form.

By reading these new posts you will find something quite different about this blog now.

This blog has been transformed and will now only be used for the Glory of God. I have been transformed. NO LONGER will I seek to turn my eyes away from the Lord, but I will keep my eyes solely focused on Him and His purpose for my life. As in the rest of the world, you can see how my thoughts below are woven with thoughts of God despite my efforts to explain Him away.

I am convinced entirely that there is no explaining this world without looking first to God, the infallible maker of all things, to ask Him why this world is the way it is. I also believe there are some things that are unexplainable to us in our human state. Our minds are temporary and God's "mind" is infinite; it exists outside of time, therefore we cannot comprehend His thoughts. 1 Corinthians 2:11 (NIV) says " For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."

Philosophers have been trying for centuries now to explain why we are here on earth and they are still arguing. I am done asking them for the answer, I want to ask someone who knows.

God tells us the answer in a very clear way.

The Bible says in Romans 11:36a "From Him and through Him and to Him are all things."

God made all things, so from Him all things came.

Everything that exists came through God. The Bible tells of God's all-knowingness (omnipotence). When God made things, He carefully thought through it all before He spoke it into existence, before time even existed. Everything in a sense was sifted through the thoughts of God, therefore everything that exists came through God, not only because He made it, but because He thought about it first.

Everything exists to God. This point is very interesting. Rick Warren in his book, The Purpose Driven Life explains it this way: "It's all for him. The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God. It is the reason everything exists, including you. God made it all for his glory. Without God's glory, there would be nothing." Everything is to God, that means we are created, and everything was created, to give glory to it's creator. Just like a designer puts his/her name on a pair of jeans, God made us in His image (Genesis 5:1) so that we could walk around and, in a sense, show Him off! Isn't that a cool thought!?

Think about this too, you never hear an advertisement talking bad about the product they are trying to sell you, right? In the same way we should not give God "bad advertisement", we should follow His commands written in scripture so that He might receive all the glory and more people might come to know Him.

Pray that God helps you show other people his logo of love because He made it all and He deserves more credit than we can give Him for it!