February 6, 2017
I wrote this on Friday, January 13th and in the minds of so many people, and many of them are Christians, it’s Friday the 13th. In our culture, Friday the 13th is expected to be a harmless, superstitious day when anything negative can happen. Well, isn’t that wonderful?
Psalm 118:24 tell us. ‘This is the day that the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.’ I think that when God had the Psalmist write this, He wasn’t thinking about how our culture would be perverting certain days in our Calendar by the influence of the adversary, and expecting bad things to happen on these days: Halloween is an example! I’m being silly, of course, God knew this would happen.
God sent Jesus Christ to do certain things so that we could have a more abundant life, as it tell us in John 10:10. This was the redemption of mankind: As believers, we can claim whole, healthy lives and rejoice in each day, as God would have us to do. We do not have to rely on such superstitious things as luck. We can claim the promises of God laid out in His Word.
We have been redeemed: which is to be bought back from the power of the adversary. We have been sanctified, which is to be set apart as sons of God, able to claim the victory that we have in Christ Jesus. That victory is being born again of God’s spirit: That doesn’t mean we’ll never get sick again. That victory means that we can claim in our minds the physical and mental wholeness that can be gotten via the new birth.
111 John, Verse 2 tells us that, ‘Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prosperth.’ (KJV).
This is God’s desire for us: And when we get to the place where we can claim this, it is greater than any counselor or psychiatrist. They are wonderful, but the good principles that they share originate in God’s Word.
The world is not going to change until Christ’s return and in the meantime, the word ‘luck’ and others like it will be an integral part of our culture. But as Christians, we are not dependent on ‘luck’ or the lottery; we should look to the promises of God to guide our lives.
Remember, we control what we put into our hearts. Proverbs 23:7a tells us, ‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he’. It’s fun to think God’s Word! They are the ‘words of life’!
What a life it is to know we don’t have to depend on superstition to balance out our thinking, but rather on God’s wonderful Word, which lives and abides for ever.
In the meantime I will continue to have funglimpses! Thanks for reading! Will Grove