Not Fair

Life really isn’t fair is it?  You or someone you love isn’t healthy.  Your kid (spouse/parent/friend) is making terrible decisions.  Your job’s not all that.  People misunderstand and/or mistreat you.  You’re worried about the future because of the war (election/economy/morals of society) and don’t know if it can be fixed.  And Brooke just got voted off AMERICAN IDOL.  Life is not fair.

Being a Christian means struggling with the fact that we and the world we live in are broken.  It really is not fair.  But what God did for us by and through Jesus is not fair either.  He is so much better.  He is the bedrock we trust in when everything around us seems out of balance or worse.  It’s not easy, and I hesitate to say this because there are folks that have and are going through things a lot worse  than anything I’ve faced, but our faith can’t be based on things working out great.  They may not.  Our faith has got to be in God himself, and that because of Who He is, we can trust Him and believe.  Because we know HIm, we know that sin and pain and unfairness WILL be washed away, engulfed, overwhelmed and completely covered. 

For the earth will be willed with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.  Hebakkuk 2:14 (NASB)