Nothing Left to Chance
Proverbs 16:33 People might throw lots to make a decision, but the answer always comes from the LORD.
Those unpredictable things that happen in life, those unexpected twists and turns, can I ask you, how exactly do they fit with the plans that God has for you?
Sometimes, it seems that chance plays a huge part in our lives. When somethingās completely outside our control, if it falls this way, itāll be okay, but if it falls the other way ā¦ wooh! Iām in serious trouble.
āWell, itās in the lap of the gods,ā you hear people say. āItās the luck of the draw.ā It seems that life is a combination of things that we can do for ourselves, things that are pretty well under our control, things with predictable outcomes (or so it seems) and a series of apparently random, unpredictable, uncontrollable events. Thatās life.
Well, I guess thatās one way of looking at things. Hereās another:
Proverbs 16:33 People might throw lots to make a decision, but the answer always comes from the LORD.
If God created the whole universe, the trillions upon trillions of stars, the amazing creatures on this planet, the completely amazing likes of you and me, if thatās truly who He is, wouldnāt you expect Him to be in control of everything?
As I look back on my life, at those apparently random things that happened, even the ones that didnāt go the way I wanted them to, in most cases, I can see how God took each one of them and used them for His purposes. I can see a God who never took His eye off the ball; a God who left nothing, absolutely nothing, to chance.
We may well think itās all about chance, we may throw lots to make our decisions, but the answer always comes from the Lord.
God leaves nothing to chance.
Thatās Godās Word. Fresh ā¦ for you ā¦ today.
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