Luck?

I visited a young couple’s home recently and WOW! what a magnificent home. Not only is their home magnificent, but their furnishings, cars, and other material possessions are equally impressive. These people have everything going for them, good jobs, wealth, good looks, intellect, wit, good health, and a deep love for each other. I mentioned this to the young man and he said, “I’m really lucky”.
Personally I think it is not luck. I think that God has elected to bless them with intelligence, talent, wit, and even good looks. God has also provided them with tremendous job opportunities. What this couple has done differently from many folks that I know is to take full advantage of all that God blessed them with. They have used what God has given them, “seized the moment” and worked hard to maximize their opportunity.

If I were this young couple I would not tell anyone that I was “lucky”.
I would tell folks that God has blessed us enormously and we took full advantage of every opportunity that came our way and worked very hard to maximize His investment in us. I would also spend some time thinking about how we could be good stewards of all that He has given us and return the proper proportion, including talent, to Him. When you think about it God does not need our money. Everything we know including our very lives belongs to Him. We are simply stewards of what he has given us. We should not waste it. If someone is smart and talented, but too lazy to achieve much in life, what a waste of the resources that God blessed them with. That is not being a good steward. The Bible tells us that we ALL have been given gifts and we are to use them to their maximum and glorify God with them.

The Bible does state, and I believe it, that He wants us also to enjoy life as Christians. Just because someone is a Christian does not mean that they have to live below the poverty line and wear a camel hair smock and live on locusts and honey. Many of God’s favorite people were blessed with unimaginable wealth such as Abraham and David. There is nothing wrong with having material possessions although they can become dangerous if one makes “them” their God. The Bible teaches that the LOVE of money is the root of all evil; not money itself. We are to be good stewards of what God has given and use the proper proportion for His good works. What is the proper proportion? The Bible gives us a guideline of 10% which I believe to be the minimum. I can tell you from personal experience that we cannot out give God. He returns far more to us than we ever give to Him.

I have said many times that life is no dress rehearsal. This is the real deal. We only pass through this world ONE time. There are no guarantees that you or I will live through this day. We need to pursue life to the hilt keeping God as number one in our lives. We should use every gift God has given us to the hilt. We should go through life like we are trying to win the Super Bowl of all Super Bowls, and we should be trying to win it for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the King of Kings!.

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1 Cor.9:24
Do you not know that those who
run in a race all run, but one receives
the prize? Run in such a way that
you may obtain it.

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