There Just Ain't No Fair

The longer I live the more cynical I become in terms of the existence of fairness.

Fair simply doesn’t exist.

A couple of weeks ago a pregnant pastor’s wife in Indiana, Amanda B., was alone in her house with a small toddler when three men walked through the unlocked front door, sexually assaulted her, and put a revolver to her head.

When her husband returned from the gym he found his wife close to death. Ultimately, Amanda passed away.

There just ain’t no such thing as fair in this old world.

Hasn’t God promised the righteous that He would keep them in all their ways?

 What of His promise? Has the Creator taken a vacation to the far reaches of the universe? Is He on an extended visit to the water closet? Did He tell anyone when He would return?

And yet the thoughtful Christian must weigh scripture against scripture.

The same God who promised to keep us in all our ways assures us of His acute awareness of a fallen sparrow. The same Lord who has led us to believe that He is with us always, (even to the end of the world) is, paradoxically, the One who provides us a detailed account of the martyrs of the early church.

We can be sure that nothing escapes God’s notice, that He knows the end from the beginning, and that His promise to keep us in all our ways is sure. For as long as He has work for us to do, nothing can harm us, or deter us from that task.

And we can be equally sure that He has found a way to “work everything for our good” in spite of the existence of the free will with which mankind has absconded. And we can be sure that we will “understand everything by and by.”

When examined in the light of mortality, there’s no such thing as fair. When examined in the light of eternity, well, that may be an entirely different thing.

There’s a poignant scripture in Romans Chapter 8 which exclaims,

“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present world aren’t worthy to be compared to the glory that will be revealed in us.”

Life is momentary. Life if fragile. Life is like a fog in the morning which disappears at noon day. There are simply no guarantees.

Fair only exists in the light of eternity. As much as we would like to “make heads or tails” out of the lack of fairness operating, or failing to operate around us, it simply cannot be done.

It behooves us to trust our soul to the One who is aware of our circumstances before our circumstances develop, Who will keep us in all our ways, and safe from all harm; until such a time that He calls us home.
 

By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 16

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