Here’s a challenge for you. Remove the words, “luck” and “lucky” from your daily usage and try to replace them with “blessed” or “blessings.” Let me give you an example. Instead of wishing someone, “Good luck!” wish them “Blessings!” or say, “Be blessed!” Substitute “I was lucky,” with “I was blessed.” Luck is random and unreliable. But blessings come from the God of the universe, our Creator. God is the source of unlimited blessings and this is certainly neither a random nor an unreliable thing.
By giving word to this, you start to very actively recognize that the good things that happen to us come through God’s blessings. By saying things like, “Blessings to you!” instead of “Good luck!” you are doing three very important things.
First, you will become more and more aware of God’s interventions in our lives and more and more aware of our blessings. You are recognizing that all goodness comes from God and that goodness is not random. This gives us a much greater sense of the security and protection that comes from God’s eternal love. Living in a world where goodness is random is a scary thing.
Second, by recognizing that all good things are blessings and increasing our awareness of this, we will automatically begin to look around and recognize more and more of God’s very not random blessings in our lives. If you make creating an active awareness of blessings in our lives a habit, pretty soon, you will see God’s bounty everywhere and this goodness will start to edge out the negative forces in your lives. This mindset makes us more grateful on many more levels. When we give thanks to the Lord, it is with much greater open-heartedness and joy, for our eyes are opened. We start to give credit where credit is due – to God!
If we constantly shift our focus toward our blessings, we invite more blessings – and more God – into our lives. This creates an attitude of gratitude. “Boy, was I blessed! Thank the Lord!” “Be blessed! Praise the Lord!”
Third, by substituting a wish of, “Be blessed!” instead of “Good luck!” you are inviting blessings into that person’s life. When you replace the concept of being lucky with the realization of being blessed, you will begin to see how many times the God Thread comes to the fore in your life.
“Wow! That was a close call! I was lucky!”
No, you were not lucky, you had a God Thread Moment. God directly interceded in your existence.
“I was in the right place at the right time.” Yes. because God directed you to be in the right place at the right time. You had a God Thread moment.
“We know that all things work for good, for those who love God. who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
Paul is not telling us here that God’s people are really lucky. He is saying that, when we love God, everything in our lives works for good. This is about God’s mercy, grace, and blessings. This is not about luck. This is about what I call the God Thread.
You will find the God Thread everywhere in your life – everywhere where there is goodness, in every kind word, in every joyful smile, in every kind deed, in moments of patience, in moments of compassion. There are no coincidences in this life; there is only the God Thread. At times, the God Thread is so strong, so visible, that it leaps into your line of vision and that, that is the time when you are having a God Thread Moment; when the Lord feels that He needs to intervene so strongly that you feel it.
This takes some practice, but the goodness of acknowledging God’s bounty in our lives and praising and thanking God is pervasive and spreads Go(o)dness.
Recognize the true source of all goodness and invite more goodness into your lives and the lives of those around you.
Be blessed!