Romans 12:1-2 “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Here is what we do know for certain what the will of God is. How can you find it? The revealed will of God is displayed in the Bible in many places and we are commanded to strive to seek God’s will for our lives (Eph 5:17). Many people are seeking to know what God’s will is. God’s will is never contrary to what the Word says. We are to seek godly counsel, prayer and then make decisions based upon what the Word of God says about such things.

Today, we do not cast lots to make decisions because we have God’s voice in the pages of the Bible. It was never used for the purpose of making or winning money. These were small, smooth stones and there was one stone usually colored dark or black and the one lot that came out was the one that was used to select either a person or to make a decision. The lot is not what we think of as playing dice today. It was not for men or women to use as justification to roll the dice and hope to win some cash. The difference is that the lot in ancient times was God’s way of making decisions that men could not adequately make on their own. I wondered at his motivation for this “recreation” really was…for his pleasure, for God’s glory, or for his own love of money? He liked to use Proverbs 16:33 as a way of justifying his gambling because he said that “every decision is from the Lord” so his decision was for him to gamble but this is text-twisting at its worse.

If he won he was going to use the money for the Lord’s work. I once heard a believer say that it is God’s will that he should gamble because it was recreational to him. Truly nothing happens outside of the sovereign will of God. God Determines the Lot Proverbs 16:33 “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.”

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