Luck and chance

I am always surprised when good Christian people testify how God gave them a second chance …

Sickly people will tell you how that the doctors by chance became aware of a certain condition and how, through this, God gave them a second chance.

Others will testify how they miraculously escaped near death and through this, God gives them a second chance.

Some will tell you that God created some incident in their lives to give them a second chance.

Yet, others will tell you how God gave them three, four or any number of chances in life.

Phew!

I have serious concerns with these kinds of testimony.

Firstly, those who utter these distorted testimonies are confused.

There is a god of chance, fortune and luck. The Greek goddess Tyche is one such, with whom the Roman goddess Fortuna was later identified. She was the fickle dispenser of good and ill fortune to the wanting and unwanting, and a person or city’s circumstances would depend on her whims. Other gods from different cultures in the world operate on the same basic principles. It is the same god they pray to when playing the lotto or slot machines.

But the God of the Bible, YHVH, does not.

Nowhere in the Bible will you find the word Luck or chance, even though the word chance was sometimes translated for an event that happened. God is not a God of chance and He does not give second chances or third or any other number for that matter.

Secondly, those who say this make out God as a liar.

By saying that you were given a second chance, the impression is created that God may give some that opportunity and others not, whilst yet others may get more than one or two. So, they are saying that God chooses who He wants to save and who He does not. How absurd? They are thus claiming that God assesses the person instead of Jesus, whilst the Bible clearly states the opposite. God is no respecter of person (Act 10:34).

Thirdly, people saying these things are renouncing their own inheritance.

God gave us authority to handle snakes and even drink deadly poison and it will not hurt us. By making a wild statement of second chances, we are saying that it all depends on God and that the dominion power given to us is inadequate. (Mark 16:18, Mat 28:19, etc.)

However

Every good and perfect Gift is ours. And if the doctor happens to determine the cause of your sickness, he or she has exercised his or her God given talent by doing so. Then the doctor may even apply his or her God given, inherited dominion in curing it. So could you.

Jesus, God in the flesh, has already given us His Life on the cross. Before His ascent He even directed that the sick should be healed, the demon cast out and the Gospel spread. It is your inheritance.

We do not have to rely on the whimsical decisions of a fickle god who may or may not give us a new lease on life.

We have that Life, living within.

His name is Jesus and His Spirit fills us with all that He is!