GodReflection: Life With The Unfair

I hope that I’ve added clarity to my thinking about Life With The Unfair over the last nine posts.

Here are some of the ideas that surface which I consider to be biggies for my life:

1. The only answer God gives to loss, tragedy, death, devastation—and whatever else I might tag as unfair—is all loss is the result of the damage and deterioration Satan set in motion when he did his damage and left the Garden of Eden.

2. Satan’s action set in motion a Cosmic War between the Satanic and the Holy. Although, it is war God will win—I am caught in the middle of the struggle and am assured eternal protection and eternal perfection by Creator God.

3. By trust in Jesus for my salvation I can learn to trust him when life is unfair.

4. By faith, I must learn to live life without the full truth. There is a God truth and God comprehension that sees beyond my unfair. My brain was not engineered to understand all of the ways God acts for my ultimate good and for the ultimate success of His restoration project.

5. When I dig in and blame God for the unfair, I am doing no less than placing in doubt His integrity.

6. The Jesus parables about talents are in reality parables about life with the unfair. The unfair comes with the possessions life issues to me. The question becomes: “Will my response to the unfair be an investment in God’s purposes or will I look at it as a commodity to be hidden away from the reach of God’s growth for my life and the life of others”? 

7. I may be the only one in the world who believes God’s hands are tied by Satan’s garden act. The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus set in motion events that will culminate with the return of Jesus when God’s hands are free by the final judgement and destruction of Satan. Until then Satan dishes out generous portions of the unfair. 

8. I am learning to understand that God loves me unconditionally. He also knows that I am human. Therefore, His heart doesn’t skip a beat at the times I question His protection. He understands my periodic doubts. His desire is that those doubts come from a believing heart that grows in His image so that less unbelief will enter. 

9. I find it helpful to remember that I’m also the recipient of the good end of the stick of unfairness. I’ve received—and receive daily—more than my fair share of good that causes me to live each day with the unfair. I have no explanation. Why is it that I’ve received so much good when others receive so little? This is harder for me to understand than why the negative comes my way.

10. Finally, I realize that God did not choose to live life with the unfair anymore that I did. Because of Satan’ garden act God lost what he valued most—His perfect relationship with man and woman. Since Jesus came to earth as a reflection of the heart of God, I learn how to deal with the unfair by looking to Jesus to see how he lived in an unfair world.

Next time I plan to bring to a close for now this round of thinking on Life With the Unfair. I want to looks at a plan to take control of this life with the unfair.

Stay tuned.

Dr. Gary J. Sorrells

A GodReflection on My Thinking Progress With The Unfair.

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