The last few days we've been talking about rolling the dice, which is the timeless historical

metaphor for taking a chance, finally getting to a place where you're like, all right,

I know everything that I could possibly know about the situation.

Now it's time to just put the ball in play and see what happens famously, of course,

Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon after the politics turned ugly in Rome and they turned

against him because of all of his massive amounts of success and because of just the

quirkiness of Rome in general at that time.

Famously, Caesar is said to have come upon the Rubicon River, the place where you have

to leave your legions behind if you're a general.

You can't bring them with you into Rome and Caesar gets there and he crosses it with his

legion and he says, the die is cast.

That wasn't a phrase that he made up or introduced into the vernacular right there and the image

of a die being cast is something that had thousands of years worth of legs behind it before

that point.

It's got a couple thousand years worth of use since then as well.

It's just a beautiful little metaphor, that little simple, six-sided in most cases.

The cube tells the story of randomness.

It is randomness incarnate and so when I say it that way, you would think that we're

talking about a rival deity to God, who, you know, Jesus is God incarnate at dice or

a die as randomness incarnate.

But if God is really the sovereign over all things and He really is providential overall

of history and surprised by nothing and knows everything that might be or could have been,

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