It was very early in the morning when the Lord woke me up by speaking loudly in my ear, “I do not do chance.” After I got up and was fully awake, He clarified to me what he meant.
When we are in turmoil and pain, that is the time when we have a tendency to believe that God has made a mistake. We believe that somewhere, somehow, if God had known ahead of time what would befall me, He surely would have stopped it from happening. We think He just forgot to come to my rescue and it’s an oversight on His part. Or we think, “I am not protected and nurtured by the Lord. He doesn’t love me like He loves others. If He did, I wouldn’t be living in these circumstances.”
These thoughts run through our subconscious mind and we may not really be aware of them. On a deeper level our spirit hears and can begin to believe these lies. We believe we are victims, or as I’ve said before, we have an “Eyore” mentality, “Woe is me…”
The explanation of God not doing chance really helped me and made sense to me. I trust it will help you too.
When we are in turmoil and pain, remembering that the Lord has not made a mistake is very important and sometimes extremely difficult. However, God doesn’t do chance.
Everything the enemy has used against us is what we will eventually use against him. The difference is that we already have the victory. Satan and all of his entourage will be taken out. I’ve read the end of The Book – I just have trouble remembering what it is really saying sometimes.
The Lord is very intentional in what He has chosen to allow Satan to bring against us. The Lord knows what is our calling and destiny, and what it will take for us to fulfill them. Every blow the enemy strikes against us is our God-given and designed opportunity for strengthening growth and blessing.
The Lord does not allow Satan’s choice of weapons to be open-ended. He does, however, give our enemy a limited category of weapons from which to choose. Don’t stop reading because you think I am a heretic. The best is still coming. Read on…
That category is intentional by the Lord and is made up only the weapons that when used against us will allow us to be strengthened (that which doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger). Even though it looks like they are harming us, they cannot. We are in God’s care and His plan for us is not to harm us. Those weapons may seem as if they are being used against us, but in truth they are being used for us – for us to have hope, for us to have our future. We have the ability and the opportunity to prosper in all situations. The trials, turmoil, pain in our lives are designed to cause us to be “over-comers” You cannot be an over-comer if you have had nothing to overcome.
All that comes against us will not prevail. The Lord already knows that we are able to be victorious over each attack. He has already placed within us that ability: and as we strengthen and grow, our character becomes more and more like Christ’s character. God knows we can win. He designed us to win he designed our every battle to be won by us. We need to know that and keep it in mind.
The very weapon that the enemy has in his hand to us against us will be the very weapon we will take possession of and use against the enemy. Even though Satan is intentionally trying to destroy us, God has intentioned us to be victorious and to be blessed. We are not victims, after all. WE are victors and to the victors go the spoils.
Every person has their own set of battles they must fight. We all fight differently but what we do have in common is God’s assurance that He doesn’t do chance. Whatever comes against use we have been uniquely designed to conquer!