TRUST GOD'S WAY

If a woman loses a husband to death or a husband loses a wife, is there not a law that says, "unfair, unfair"?  If a family loses a son or daughter due  to a heroin overdose in spite of much prayer, is it fair?  If one mother prays for reconciliation with a son and another mother prays for her son's reconciliation, and only one son becomes reconciled, is it fair to the remaining mother?


Life is filled with unfairness.  How do we look at God when life is unfair?  Job 38:2, 36, 37speaks to just this question.  God finally answers Job's questions to Him, "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?" And later, "Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?  Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?"


Study/ "Instead of answering Job's question, "Why me?", God asks Job a series of questions that no human could possible answer.  God was not seeking answers from Job.  Instead, he was getting Job to recognize and submit to God's power and sovereignty.  Only then could Job hear what God was really saying to him.  God himself is the standard of justice, using his power according to his own moral perfection.  Thus, whatever He does is fair, even if we don't understand it.  Our response is to appeal directly to him."


Yes, appeal to God, for there is no law of fairness.  We must remember to accept what is given to us and know by faith that God uses his power according to his own moral perfection.  His way is perfect.


Hard to accept?  Maybe.  But we can't all be presidents of the United States, either.  Some of us may be given great wealth with lots of money in the bank, others have not, but may have great wealth in some other manner, like family, love, Godliness, talent, or blue eyes rather than brown, or brown eyes rather than blue. We cannot expect  fairness as we understand it.  God's way is God's way, and His way is always for the best.


It can all be considered fair if we have faith in God's decisions, and remember to thank him daily for all he has given to each of us.  And if someone gets to have a new baby in time for being able to claim him or her on that year's tax forms, just call it "luck."


Some of us are, some of us ain't...lucky, that is.  I am, for sure, and I am also blessed!!  I hope you, too, are blessed.  You are, if you love God!


Jo INMN