Our Footsteps: Friday the Thirteenth

Friday, November 13, 2009

Friday the Thirteenth

I remember watching Hee-Haw when I was a kid and one line of one of the songs they sang every week went something like: "if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all... gloom, despair and agony on me". Today's another Friday the 13th, the third one of the year... and all the superstitious people are out in force. You'd think that Friday the 13th was the blame for all that ails us. I even read that Franklin Roosevelt wouldn't travel on that day. As if the number on a calendar has anything to do with whether the events of the day have a positive or negative result in our lives. Does luck have anything to do with anything? Buildings with no floors numbered 13. Athletes that won't wear number 13 on their jerseys. There's even an official word for this fear of 13: Triskaidekaphobia. Can you believe it?!

I'm thinkin' there's a little more to life than good luck outweighing the bad luck. Triskaidekaphobia should be non-existent in the life of a Christian. In fact, any condition with a long name that ends in phobia should not characterize a Christian. Amen? When Paul wrote to Timothy, he stated emphatically that 'God has not given us a spirit of fear... but of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). If we're exhibiting a spirit of fear, we didn't get that from God. If we're afraid of 13, even when it coincides with Friday, that is not something that came from God. How in the world did we ever let the enemy hijack a simple number to paralyze us?! How did that prime number between 12 and 14 end up in the hands of the deceiver to terrorize us?! Let's take back our number 13!

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