They tell us that one in three marriages are going to end in divorce. The media are using what is called the law of averages. The average is the arithmetical mean, established by adding a set of values and dividing the total by the number of items. It represents the middle or median point in a range of given values. In these days most database programs provide the means to establish the average of almost everything.
Many people believe what the media says, and they believe the law of averages.
You are still worldly. The statement concerns Christians whose actions are governed by the information coming to them via the five senses. The law of averages has two inherent dangers I am concerned about the law of averages because I feel it has two inherent dangers. One is that it encourages people to pessimism and soon becomes fatalism, where they think that certain events must happen. For example, if our marriage happens to be marriage number three then I have an unavoidable appointment at the divorce court.