you feeling lucky, punk?

wow. what a title to start the new year off with. no, this post has nothing to do with dirty harry or clint eastwood but as you'll discover, the title is relevant...
if you have ever used www.google.com to conduct a web search (i assume most have!) you'll notice the 2 choices just below the word search bar. the one on the left says "google search" and the one on the right says "i'm feeling lucky". are you? would you gamble your life on an "im feeling lucky" result? where am i going with this? here we go...
it crossed my mind today that we sometimes treat our search for answers to life like we're asking google and not God. God doesn't have a "i'm feeling lucky" search wherein you are given a random search result out of a myriad of possibilities available. He clearly states "'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.' jeremiah 29:11 (nasb)" God does not rely on luck at all for the answers to our lives. but we have the tendency to do so ourselves.
if God knows the plans He has for us, why do we find ourselves at wit's end reading through every book but the bible, watching self help tv shows, asking everyone's opinion but God's, crying ourselves to sleep because we have too many answers or none at all, yelling at kids, friends, strangers because we're fed up and frustrated; and then hitting the "i'm feeling lucky" button and end up following either the advice of a book, neighbour or our discontent? (editor's note: possibly the longest sentence on CRW) because relying on God's plan requires relying on God.
its so simple to go the route of lucky and be able to blame someone or something else when the answer falls apart and we're left with our finger over the "i'm feeling lucky" button for the umpteenth time. but when it comes to relying on God, it requires our faith to go to work and our resolve to go through what we have to go through to see the answer God has already determined for us.
this year, the next time we are desperate for an answer to a problem in life, we should ask ourselves: "you feeling lucky, punk?" because once the answer becomes "no", we'll be well on our way to trusting in God who knows the plans He has for us and not towards gambling our lives away on random answers from random sources with random results.