Lucky

Lucky. That word always reminds me of the 80s/90s country song by Mary Chapin Carpenter, “I Feel Lucky”.  I tell my wife all the time how lucky I am to have her and her response is “it’s not luck, it’s a blessing!”  From a Christian point of view, she’s right, there is no such thing as luck. God is sovereign over all things and nothing happens according to luck. Things happen because He blesses us with those things.

We may barely miss being in a car accident and we are quick to say, “I was lucky I avoided that”, when in actuality, it was the blessings of God that we avoided it. Even those that are not Christians are afforded the blessings of God over luck. The Bible says, “For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” - Matthew 5:45.

The blessings of God have nothing to do with four leaf clovers, rabbit’s feet, horse shoes or pennies; it is purely the love of God that He has for His creation. “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.  But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” - Matthew 10:29-31.

As Christians, do not rely on “luck”, but count all things as blessings from God.  “Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!” - Psalm 144:15. Even though Mary Chapin Carpenter may have sang about felling lucky, it all comes down to the blessings of God. Have you realized how blessed by God you really are?  Blessed that you don’t have to pay the penalty of your own sins!  That’s not lucky my friends, that’s being blessed!

Have a great day and God bless.