The is post is a response to a challenge from the epitome of blogging - Chuck Weinberg. It is also a way of communicating the nasty taste that is in my mouth, that the world and many Christians eat without notice or care.
The title of this post used to be a joke that I would tell when Christians I know would use the words "luck" or "lucky." It used to irritate me then but never to point that it has now. Many people will think that I am just playing a semantics game and are taking this way to serious, but let me explain to you why the use of this is an affront and form of blaspheme to God.
I believe, as the Bible says that God is the Creator of all. He did not just create, and then step away from time and history and let a series of coincidences determine the outcome and destiny of His Creation. The kind of god that is idle, reactive, capricious, and laissez-faire is not a god at all but an idol. A dead worthless figment of man's imagination. This god is product of false doctrine and lies. This god is not the God of Scripture nor my God.
I believe the words like, "luck, lucky, luckily, fortune, fortunate, fortunately, chance," or any other synonyms are words used to give someone or something the glory and the power. These words are so pervasive in our language, even the most ardent Calvinists use them without thinking. Often, if a person does not believe in "luck", they will substitute "fortune" for it and think that is acceptable. This maybe acceptable for a dead person, but for the redeemed of Christ, it is ignorant, foolish, and blasphemous. In saying this, I have said both, but we must be very careful with our words, they say alot (no pun intended ... well maybe). Sometimes when I have called people on using "luck" or "fortune," they have, with a hint of mocking, said "providentially." That is better, but is the providence of God something we are really to be mocking or not taking serious?
God will not be mocked. He is a Jealous God. All that He does is for His glory. If somehow something was out of His control then, He would cease to be God and something else would become God or at least His equal. If God is omniscient, and He is, then nothing else has ultimate control or power over some part of His creation God destroys or will destroy anything that tries to usurp His power and glory. The first example is Lucifer/Satan and second is Adam and all mankind that follows. We are all guilty of defaming, blashpheming, and rejecting God's sovereign reign, power, and glory. We are destined for His destruction, that is ... without a mediator, a propitiator, and a justifier, and there is only one - the Man and Son of God - Jesus the Christ. I thank God that He is always pleasing God on my behalf and His death and resurrection are all-sufficient to fully glorify God. God's plan of history is about His glory and He brings ultimate glory to Himself through His sovereign plan of redemption and nothing, I say again nothing is outside of that plan, and it all culminates with the Jesus Christ.
So let us give God the praise with our words and go out of our way to praise Him in every situation and circumstances, the good and the bad. Praise God for His sovereignty and His goodness.
BTW, in my Webster's New Dictionary "luck" comes right after "Lucifer."
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