Subject: LUCK - Satanic or Divine |
Bible Note: First please forgive any offense I was just trying to drive my point home. I'm so sorry! I have tried to answer your questions or statement here with the least amount of words possible but as many have said you would have to shoot me to shut me up. :-) Your Response Please give scripture where God promises to control every detail of a Christian’s life no matter how mundane it is. My answer Isn’t that what Psalm 37:23 says? “ The steps of a man are established by the Lord, And He delights in his way.” Your response Your view seems to be that machines will last forever if they are maintained. Sorry but that is not so. :) My answer No where did I say machines last forever they wear out and for a reason, we live in a imperfect world. Your respose I doubt if very many of us seek God’s will before deciding which fast food restaurant to eat at or which store to buy our clothing at. The small and seemingly unimportant decisions we make millions of times throughout our lives have effects such as who we meet. I believe God does direct our actions at times for His purposes. I also believe He gave us a sentient mind and we are responsible for making logical decisions on many matters without direct divine intervention. If I believed that all of life’s circumstances were God giving me a message I am not sure I could function in society (oh no my pencil lead broke, I must seek God for the meaning). My answer Your right few of us including me seek God’s direction for such mundane (as you put it) things, but maybe we should. If you listen to testimonies of the great men of the faith (Moody as an example) you will hear them over and over again repeat they sought God in all things. In saying there is not luck I’m not ruling out nature or the laws of probability but rather I’m saying when things do happen rather than walk away saying we are having a lousy day and luck is not with us we should be looking for how God could be using this. This is true story I had a friend call me all excited that her power steering broke. I said what are you nuts? She said no I‘m excite to see how God is going to use this. Three days later I had my car in getting a oil change and I saw her pull in. I went over to say hi. She jumped out of the car and said come on I have people for you to meet. She took me to the cashier and you would have thought you were in church! The cashier then called two salesman down from the showroom and we had more church. As it turned out my friend had used the broken power steering pump as an opportunity to tell three people about Jesus. Guess what the Power steering was under a recall no charge! Luck I don’t think so! Your response I am offended that you would think I believe that God was not Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient and Sovereign, and that I am a humanist by reading what I posted. Must be my inability to express my beliefs in writing. My answer If your worried about your inability of expressing yourself then imagine my dismay that I conveyed you were a humanist. I'm so sorry! I was trying to say luck was humanist or the thinking of the world today, that God isn’t in control, that things just happen. You have seen the bumper sticker “things happen”? That is nonsense things happen for a reason it isn't just luck. Your pencil broke? Some choose to believe that is lousy luck I choose to believe God knew I needed a rest or I needed to move my legs, or Sam over by the pencil sharpener needed to hear “how is life Sam? Or the guy that makes pencils needs more work so I grind my pencil down and get another one. :-) Luck is just not in my vocabulary, I don’t believe in it and I don’t live by it. I believe there is a purpose behind everything that happens. Again I'm so sorry that you took what I said as calling you a humanist or that you didn't beleive in the awesome attributes of God. |