Luck or fortuity is a belief in good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or chance, and attributed by some to reasons of faith or superstition, which happens beyond a person's control.
Luck is pervasive in common speech. Typical uses includes "Good Luck!" to wish a blessing on someone, or describing a misfortune, as in "it was just bad luck." There are many expressions and quotes about Luck.
It is common for people even christian to get into the habit of saying luck when wishing someone well in there travels,instead of bringing the one who knows our destiny credit for safe voyages,as christians we should bring God into the conversation by saying Godspeed that way it gives credit where credit is do.
Cultural views of luck vary from perceiving luck as a matter of random chance to attributing to luck explanations of faith or superstition. For example, the Romans believed in the embodiment of luck as the Goddess Fortuna.
When we say good luck it is like giving credit to a Goddess for the good,and bad things in our life
we must be careful of things that appear harmless for sometimes thing are far from it.
With love a Brother in Christ the Lord.
Words in Black information gathered from the wikipedia
words in blue are my own commentary. I will begin a series of things that seem harmless
but are far from it, hence the label of this post.
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Interesting insights. I bet there are lots of things we say that are pagan. Like, do you say "God bless you" when people sneeze?
ReplyDeleteI never really used it before,but were it original orginated from was in the belief that
ReplyDeletewhen someone sneezes their soul momentarily leaves their body,and a evil spirit could possibly steal it,although I think its perfectly acceptable for people to bless in God's name as long as it's the right name.
One of my Pastor's pet peeves is the knock on wood thing "such and such is doing good knock on wood" Instead of giving credit to a Living God people would rather give credit to dead trees.
I'll probaly do another blog on pagan phrases as soon as I get a few together, I'll also do things
on symbols like the peace sign.