In Rogue, right after the Empire tested a single reactor ignition of the Death Star’s laser, Cassian, K-2SO, Jyn, and company are trying to escape the blast radius. As they take off in their U-Wing, K-2SO quips, “I’m not very optimistic about our odds.”
The droid processes odds and possibilities based on facts, formulas, and science. K2 lives no room for the unexplainable.
Often people today are similar. While their “facts” may not be correct, they do cling to them and have a faith-like belief in things that even science cannot prove.
For people of faith, we can fall prey to that thinking as well. We are also able to turn from that if we follow Paul’s admonition in Romans: 12:2 when he tells believers, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Jesus, in Matthew 19:26, looked at His disciples and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
In the Old Testament, there numerous examples of when God did things that seemed impossible such as Exodus 14 and the parting of the Red Sea or Judges chapters 6 to 8 to see what God did through Gideon.
In the books of Acts, we see God healing the lame (3:1-11), raising the dead (9:36-41), and helping Paul and Silas escape prison through an earthquake (16:25-26).
So we no longer need to worry about “the odds” of something happening. We need to make sure that we are in God’s will and are listening to the divine guidance we can receive.
How do we live this out?
We live in constant prayer (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
We seek His kingdom on earth (Matthew 6:10).
We ask for things in the name of Jesus (John 14:13).
