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There are several reasons why one turns to gambling. While some people just think of it as a source of raw entertainment and trying out your luck in pursuit of easy money, some people resort to gambling in trying to restore order to their financial crisis, some are just compulsive gamblers. Usually the third reason applies to the people to whom at some earlier point of time the first and the second reasons also applied. And for some, gambling is a profession. In either of these cases one golden rule of gambling applies, no one can keep winning always.
Let’s just discuss the four kinds of gamblers separately. The one who gambles for raw entertainment; if he wins, then the thrill of winning pushes him to play on and if he loses then he is compelled to play on so that he can recover his losses. The bottom-line is, he does not continue playing only for entertainment. The person who gambles in hope of restoring order to his financial distresses is already in debts usually. So his winning once wouldn’t allow him to leave the table as his debts aren’t cleared. Playing on only increases his possibilities of losing further which would throw his financial standings further down the pit. Consequently depression sets in to that person. A compulsive gambler knows that he is likely to lose further by gambling, and he has already lost a fortune at it. Yet the person is unwilling to give up gambling as he is already addicted to it. Trying to keep him forcefully out of it also has adverse affects as he becomes restless. The person then suffers from severe depression resulting out of internal conflicts and mental stress. As he keeps losing more money at gambling this stress begins to show and the mental conflicts begin to take physical form. As for the professional gambler, the rules of gambling still holds true, even a professional cannot win always. Consequently he also loses money and anyone who is depreciating financially would suffer from depression.
Thankfully, there are several rehab facilities for treating such depression and people do get over it and come back to leading a normal life.
“Touch not; taste not; handle not” (Colossians 2:21)
According to true Christians ‘luck and gambling’ must be avoided. Winning and losing have a different meaning for Christians. When they deal with reality all that counts is whether they could win the Lord. I they have enjoyed every material wealth in life but didn’t get Christ, their life is worthless. On the other hand if a person gets nothing in life but the blessings of the Lord, e has the greatest of wins. The Christ asks Christians that whoever they may be or wherever they are coming from, if they have not done any ‘unclean’ thing, Jesus will deliver them.
Uncertainty has never been a part of anything that God has to present while luck involves this uncertainty. Though it may bring prosperity and success to a man, there’s always an element of chance. Whereas, if true service is rendered to God, one can have all the definite ‘prosperity and success.’ “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things [meaning luck] are passed away; behold, all things are become new”(2 Corinthians 5:17).
God is sure to supply every man with what he needs. Instead of wishing luck, any saint would say to another Christian ‘God bless you’.
Gambling is similar to what luck means. Since everything in these rests upon a chance you may be ill at loss or beneficiary of the advantage. The Lord says that our life is like a vapor. Sometimes we are in a certain place while at another instance we become completely non-existential at that place to be in another land. Gambling means violating the Law of Love, this has been taught by Jesus. In gambling one person wins at the stake of another and this certainly does not follow the rules of the Bible. If you love money, you are loving evil, which is a err from your faith and you have to face the sorrows.
When you see the prosperity of a wicked, you come to know that they are in fulfillment unlike other men but they are corrupt and they speak loftily.