When will I have Golden Luck?

“Some people have all the luck in the world.” “How come they are so lucky even though they are not believers?” “Why don’t I have their kind of luck though I’m a submitter?”

In your early years of submission, you may have asked yourself these questions many times. Then, as your knowledge and wisdom grew, you realized the answer. Everything is God’s plan to make you win the grand prize of Heaven while many of those you thought were lucky will not win it.

But sometimes we need reminders of all this to keep our focus on the prize. God wants us to win the grand prize, so He gives us these reminders in many ways. They can be through the people we meet and the places we visit. The books we read and movies we watch, even the hours we may spend scrolling on our phones!

A while ago, I got some great reminders from God about this matter of luck and lucky people. They came to me through a movie He led me to watch again, fifty-five years after I first saw it in 1971. I was nine years old then.

The movie was “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” which some readers here may have seen and enjoyed. The following is a brief description of the movie and the reminders I got from it. God willing, it will help those who still wonder about their luck and lucky people.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The movie is about a chocolate maker, Willy Wonka, and a poor boy, Charlie Bucket.

Children all over the world loved Willy Wonka’s chocolates. Many wondered how he made them, but he kept that a well-guarded secret. No one even knew who worked in his factory.

Then one day, he announced that he had placed five Golden Tickets inside five chocolate bars. Five lucky children who found these tickets would get a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolates. They would also get a tour of the Wonka factory by Willy Wonka himself.

Millions of children hoped to be one of the lucky ones to find a ticket. Some rich parents even bought tons of bars

to increase the chance of finding a ticket for their children.

Charlie’s family could not really afford to buy any bars. Yet, the one they bought had no ticket, and soon five other children found the tickets. Charlie was sad, and his mother tried to comfort him. She said, “Charlie, you’ll get your chance. One day things will change.” When he asked her when they would change, she said, “Probably when you least expect it.” Then she sang to him: “Till that day you got to stay strong. Charlie, up on top is right where you belong.”

The next day, Charlie found a coin in the street. Though five other children had already found the tickets, he used that coin to buy a Wonka bar anyway. He devoured it on the spot, then bought another bar for his grandfather. When he came out of the store, news broke that the claim to the fifth ticket was a fraud. Someone had made a fake ticket, which meant that someone could still find the fifth ticket.

With a deep breath, Charlie opened the bar in his hand, really slowly. You can imagine the look on his face when he saw it contained the fifth Golden Ticket!

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