Article June 29, 1987 Issue

Freedom from chance

Many people feel, intuitively, that gambling is wrong. But what about other forms of luck and chance in our lives? Are we alert to the false assumptions behind them as well?

Louis Abrahams

When I was paying for items in a store recently, the cashier offered me a coupon that she said might win me some valuable prizes. I politely refused the coupon and told the cashier that if I thought good luck could help me, I also might believe bad luck could harm me.

As we all know, luck can fluctuate from one extreme to the other, apparently helpful in one instance, damaging at another. So—in everyone's best interests—we should never think of leaving anything to chance.

Chance implies the possibility that something can happen unpredictably. And it does seem that unexpected, even terrible things happen to people every day. Yet the Bible is filled with reassuring promises and evidences that God is ever available to help us. Even more, it points to the fact that God is the one supremely good power; in fact, the only real power.

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