Article October 9, 2006 Issue

ACTUALLY, LIFE IS NOT A LOTTERY

BY TONY LOBL

Our surety is in our confidence that we are indeed dwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. Such a heavenly assurance ends all warfare, and bids tumult cease for the good fight we have waged is over, and divine Love gives us the true sense of victory. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures."

—Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press, p. 3

"BE READY always to give an answer," the Bible says, "to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you..." (I Pet. 3:15). Suppose you found yourself telling someone who asked you your reason for hope that it was because everyone has a 1 in 13,983,816 chance of experiencing God's goodness?

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