GodReflection: Life with the Unfair
First and right up front God doesn’t need me to act as His defense attorney.
My purpose is not to defend God but rather in light of the obvious, it is my purpose to figure out how to live in an unfair world.
Practically every time I emerge from under my rock I’m greeted with unfairness when I act as its perpetrator, when I am its recipient, or its witness. Hopefully, the closer my heart aligns to God’s the less I become the offender.
In real life of home, school, work, errands, government—and dare I say church—the unfair raises its head far too often.
Health and wealth realities of unfairness keep their bright lights and sirens at maximum wattage.
In my house or in my car it only takes the flick of a switch to witness the unfair on steroids.
Natural disasters, war, famine, hunger, terrorist attacks, robbery, and murder are served over the airwaves with such frequency that I must struggle to see that my reaction to disaster doesn’t become cold and cavalier.
I find it interesting that the writers of Scripture paint the battle of God verses Satan in rather broad strokes.
Life is a constant encounter between good and evil, sin and holy, degeneration and reconstruction, death and life. As a descendant of Adam and Eve I find myself in the middle of the battlefield.
Ok, I can accept that Adam got me into battle.
However, what Scripture refrains from sharing with me is why my wounds are greater or lesser than those of another human being. 
The best that I can tell, neither God, Jesus, nor the Holy Spirit ever disclose why I receive a surface lesion while another receives a fatal blow.
Nor does the Holy share why I receive enormous blessings and another is born in poverty and with a clef pallet in Sub-Saharan Africa.
I can only conclude that life isn’t fair.
But how do I live with the unfair both when I’m blessed and when I get the short end of the stick?
Here is what I think.
There is a Cosmic War taking place between God and Satan.
With two all-encompassing passes of His brush God first paints the initial gash wound to Satan as the resurrection of Jesus.
The second swipe of His brush promises the ultimate defeat of the Devil at the return of Jesus when all creation will be resurrected anew.
Basically, that is what I know about the Cosmic Battle. God will win.
By life with Jesus I can rest assured my soul is bullet proof in this life and will live with God in the eternal.
However, for the present since I don’t know the intricacies of the battle, I’m left to trust God when both the fair and the unfair are felt in my life.
At the same time I learn through Jesus that God’s value is love, goodness, mercy, and grace toward His children. God is working toward the restoration of all that is good and fair. That’s what He wants ultimately for me.
As a disciple my objective is to join with the mission of the Holy. If I am powered by the Spirit of God then my mission is to promote justice and work with the Creator to correct the unfair.
My response to God as a disciple is to trust Him with the unfair that comes my way and join with Him to right Satan’s unfairness within the scope of my influence.
Doesn’t that place me as one of the globes untold millions of the Christ committed who bring Kingdom to shine in dark corners of our neighborhoods and around the world?
In that way I’m not only caught in the big picture of God’s war to eliminate Satan, in fact I align myself with Jesus who knows all about unfair treatment to bring about the will of God.
That being the case, shouldn’t I be willing to live with the unfair?
Stay tuned.
Dr. Gary J. Sorrells – A GodReflection on God’s Big Picture.
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Doc, excellent thoughts on the ‘unfairness’ of life…thanks! keep up the good work! Ken
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