Yet the house of
Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' O house of Israel, is it not My
ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair? – Ezekiel 18.29
‘IT’S NOT FAIR!’
I heard it just the
other day from a grandchild. I have been hearing that for a long, long and I am
sure that long before that I was saying it myself. It seems like the perfect
answer, doesn’t it? If we don’t like something it just isn’t fair!
Our concept of
fairness is flawed because we don’t know everything. We base ‘fairness’ on our
perceptions. As parents and grandparents and teachers and whatever as hard as
we try we may not always be fair because we are not perfect, but God’s way is
always because He can’t help but to be fair. It’s our ways that are not fair because
we have a skewed perspective on fairness. To me fairness means that it doesn’t
suit me. Fairness means that I am treated differently.
God is fair because
has a simple standard. We, every one of us, live in a broken world full of
broken people and I (and you, and everyone else) am one of those broken people.
We are sinners and every sin is enough to keep us out of heaven. Not a one of
us is good enough to go there.
But God is fair
because He has it sorted. He sent Jesus, who knew no sin, the take our sins to
the cross and anyone, anywhere, who calls on Christ for forgiveness can enjoy
eternity with Him.
Man’s way and his
created religions are not fair because they put a burden of works on man that
can never be satisfied.
I am glad that
those 40 some years I trusted God and His fairness.
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