by: Christian Ongtangco
“I think life is really unfair! It’s so unfair, my colleague would work 8 hours while I would works 16 hours but I still get paid less than the others.”
You worked hard in the company for years, but someone else get the promotion. You invested your money in funds your broker recommended, but they failed.You did your best to be a good parent, but your kids turned out no better than the children whose parents didn’t seem to care about them.
“I’ve been a good Christian, in fact I pray and never missed my daily devotions with the Lord but how come I don’t get blessed as my neighbor who doesn’t believe in God?”
Are these the question familiar to you? Have you ever asked them yourself?
I believe you’ve thought of it too. Life is unfair.If we take our measuring stick too often, We get mad, angry or envious because we think we deserve more than we’re getting from God.
Jesus spent a lot of His time explaining the grace of God to people. Grace is a foreign concept for most of us. I must for me personally, this is something big.
For most of us we operate by the law, standards, rewards, and punishment, so God’s Grace just doesn’t fit. Looking at it in this perspective, Yes God is unfair. God’s goodness reach out to everybody: the good (if you claim you are) and the evil, the righteous and the unrighteous, you and your neighbor, your spouse and the person who got the promotion instead of you.
With God, we have nothing to boast or to be proud of, not even our righteousness, good deeds or obedience. The Gospel reminds us that its only by His Amazing Grace, by it, He has promised those who obey him and will comfort those whose trust is in Him.”
God doesn’t have to send us a Savior through His one and only son Jesus Christ.
We all should be dead by now, but God with His unending love and amazing Grace , saved us and snatched us out of hopelessness, sin and death brought us out into a wonderful and abundant life, a relationship with Him.Isn’t that unfair. Who are we that He is mindful of us, that He cares for us.
We have a choice either we can complain and feel sorry for ourselves, or we can be thankful that the God of such goodness is the One we love and serve. Comparison kills because it always leaves us wanting more, but thankfulness brings life.
