LUCKY

A few days ago someone at the place where I work had a potentially fatal accident. As he reached across a machine to adjust it, his clothes got caught and dragged into the machine. He was fortunate to escape with cuts, bruises and burns and without any more serious injuries. One word has been used to describe his fate over the last week: Lucky.

Maybe there was more to it than luck. Perhaps it was an invisible hand that saved him, a hand or an angel much stronger than the forces that could have killed him. But in a godless society people refuse to admit that such a thing could happen. Instead they prefer to believe in a random event of chance called Luck.

Even Israel had that problem, and they should have been the ones that believed in God. God said, "It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realise that it was I who healed them." (Hos 11:3) It was not luck that healed Israel, or even their own strength that gave them the basics of life. It was all provided by God.

Life is not a matter of random chance or luck, especially for those of us who believe. God's hand is at work in our lives because he loves us. Attributing our fortune to luck is bordering on blasphemous. Instead let us recognise God's work in our lives and give him the credit and thanks for what he does.
Robert Prins [Auckland - Pakuranga - (NZ)]