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!