When Life’s Not Fair

Life just isn’t fair sometimes.  Things don’t add up the way we think they should.   The bad guys seem to get away with murder and live great lives, and those that seem to live lives that honor and obey God suffer.  What’s up with that?!

  The Psalmist was frustrated because life didn’t seem fair and he wrote to God:

When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.  Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.  You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.  Whom have I in heaven but you?  And earth has nothing I desire except you.  My heart and my flesh may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  Psalm 73:21-26 (NIV)