It's Not Fair!

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.' Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair? (Eze 18:25)

Ever gripe about the unfairness of the world? Be discerning that we are not accusing the Lord of unfairness as the old-time Israelites did. We will want to be careful with our fair and unfair, not being able to see all things as the Lord does.

This year, somewhere, an experienced gardener, a diligent gardener, prepared his/her seedbed, planted all the seeds at the correct depth and spacing, and at the right time. Watering and weeding though the hot days, this gardener looked up to see the ominous thunderstorm approaching, but could do nothing as the hail beat that well-ordered garden into the ground. I, on the other hand, did other things until my planting was late. Thus, on the day of the hail my potatoes had not yet sprouted (at least outside) and my pumpkins had not poked their little green stems out of the ground yet. I am not some kind of gardening wizard, that would be unfair, but a partaker of the Lord's goodness. Fair, to our limited view, would be that the on-time and proper gardener should always have that perfect garden while my garden suffered the hail pounding.

The goodness of the Lord should not be an excuse for slacking, but what we consider unfair in many cases may be the opportunity for the Lord's goodness to shine. The tough time to realize that is of course when the unfair seems to be toward us and our efforts. When the harvest doesn't come in after much effort and expense, we are tempted to shout 'Unfair!' as those Israelites did back in the Bible day. Yet, that may be the time that the Lord's goodness is just around the corner that we cannot see past. And who are we to question God's ordering of things?

Amen! Blessed be the Lord and His goodness and fairness.

Bucky