Don’t Waste Your Time with “Karma” or “Fate”
Today’s Bible Verse: Job 4:8 ESV
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
If you know me then you know I really dislike it when people use two words - fate or karma. For example, when two people meet and hit it off, someone would say, “See, it’s fate that they met.” Or when something bad happens to a bad person, “See, karma.” Of course, the karma-thing doesn’t count when bad things happen to good people, but I digress.
Our bible verse today from the Book of Job is not one that was said by Job. In fact, it was one of his friends, Eliphaz the Temanite. It is part of Job’s friends attempt to sway him against believing and trusting in God. As Christians, we know that God doesn’t sit on His throne in heaven smiting good or bad people. Our God is full of grace, mercy, and love. We see all three in the world He’s given us to live on where all that we need to support our lives is right before us. And in sending His Son to pay for our sins on the cross, His grace and mercy showers upon us.
To try and bring in fate or karma into the Christian life is wrong. Bad things happen because we live in a fallen and sinful world. There is no phony cosmic force that is punishing people for doing bad things. We Christians stand in our faith in Jesus Christ that He has done it all to bring us into eternal life with Him.
PRAYERS
Keep in Your Prayers:
All people battling cancer.
Those who reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
A Prayer for Today:
Heavenly Father, strengthen me today to be a person who tells the truth of Jesus in our fallen world so more people can come to faith in Him and live. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.
Luther’s Morning Prayer:
I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.
Apostles’ Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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