Did you know a famous book includes a reference to good fortune? We were reminded of that this weekend....
Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah said, "What good fortune!" So she named him Gad. - Genesis 30:10-11
We quote from the New International Version here - but other Bible translations explain this very differently. The King James Version has Leah saying, "A troop is coming!" Perhaps that's because the birth of this child was not really "fortune" or luck at all....
When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. - Genesis 29:31
God seemed to play games with the loves of Jacob's life, and even their servants (see 30:17, 19, 22). It was all God's plan, building a family with 12 famous tribes. Gad was one of them. But that does not mean you should claim membership in Gad to have success in poker.
But as for you who forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny, I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter.... - Isaiah 65:11-12
"Fortune" is the same Hebrew word as in Genesis 30.
Put simply: trust God, not Gad. The true God blesses. False gods don't - and only get you in trouble with the true One.
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