Luck Versus Grace

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"In my experience there is no such thing as luck."


-Obi Wan Kenobi


      How you see fortune often depends on what you believe and how you see your reality. To someone who is not super spiritual or doesn't  believe in God or higher beings in general, life's fortunes and misfortunes come down to a combination of random processes, coincidences, and outcomes as well as the merit of someone's work. 


This randomness leaves no room for grace, as all fortune and success would come from random, unguided luck and just raw merit. 


If you believe in God, than all your fortune, successes, and good things were not random happenings and just opportunities with good timing, they were acts of grace given freely to you by an infinitely graceful and infinitely merciful God. You didn't earn your fortune. You didn't earn the right to exist. It was a gift given freely out of love by a loving Creator.


    This leaves no room for luck. If you are a believer, than whenever you felt lucky or interpreted a matter of fortune as just coincidental luck, the existence of God would dictate all that luck to be truly an act of grace. Every time you felt something was luck, it was actually grace.


Luck exists in the absence of God, where everything is guided by random unconscious forces with no intent or will about them. Every act of serious fortune is akin to winning a lottery.


Grace exists with the presence of God, where every fortune given was calculated, constructed, and willed as an act of love and consideration by an all powerful conscious force. Grace, being a free gift with a wilfull intent or purpose behind it, makes luck and randomness obsolete concepts, where everything absolutely does happen for reason and happens for the glory of the Creator


Since your beliefs shape your internal reality and heavily influence your external one, how you see luck and grace depends on what you believe. If you believe in God, luck is actually grace. If you don't, than grace, to you, is just luck.

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