There's a person whose blog I follow and she is trying to sell her condo. The thing is, she is having to sell it for around half of what she bought it for. It really is an awful situation and I feel really bad for her. And I want to state up front that what is to follow is not about her, I'm just using her situation as an example. From her post that I read, she is handling this situation very graciously. But, it's things like this that make life seem unfair. I know we've all had them, to some degree or another. It got me thinking, though --- what is fair? And it made me think of my most recent scripture memory passage:
"See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him --- his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness --- so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed. He grew up before him like a tender shoot, like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, but we considered him stricken by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before he shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of my people he was stricken."
-Isaiah 52 : 13 through 53 : 8
That is the most unfair thing of which I can think. That he was pierced for my transgressions...by his wounds, we are healed...that he was led like a lamb to the slaughter for the ways we offended his nature. I cannot conceive of a greater love.
So the next time you think something is unfair, whether it be you losing +$100,000 on a condo or someone cuts you off in traffic, I ask you to take a moment and think about how fair (or unfair, actually) God has been to you.
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Definitely food for thought and I will be the first person to tell you, that whatever I am going through right now, there are billions out there who have it far worse than I do. I recognize that I have been blessed with (as well as worked hard for) a good life. My moments of it's not fair are moments of self pity and whininess and not moments of maturity, as a result, those moments, thank goodness, are few and far between.
Life deals you your hand and you can either make the best of it or make the worst of it. I have a good job, a family who loves me, friends who are more than kind to me, and a dog that is the center of my universe. God has had his hand in more than a little bit of my good life and for that, I am more than grateful.
Not that, you know, it was about me or anything. :)
Edited: because I left some words out.
wow, paul..... of course, i love those verses from Isaiah 53, because they are the ones that, in 1978, opened my eyes, mind, heart to who Jesus really was, what he really did...anyway, yeah, it's extremely unfair that He would take the chastisement for my sin......but, loving parents goes to all lengths of sacrifice for their children, and our Father sacrificed it all for fellowship with us, His children...... my sin for His perfect holy life?.....it's unfair, but i gratefully accept it and stand in awe....
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