"That's not fair!" "She's not treating me fairly!" "That ball wasn't foul! It was fair!"
Okay, maybe I threw in that last one as an homage to the end of the baseball season. But, who hasn't heard, or said, these last few phrases? God has placed in us an innate sense of fairness. We know when we aren't being treated fairly - and we feel the sting of it painfully. But, God never promised this life would be fair. In fact, when he sent Christ to earth to die painfully on a cross for our sins, that was the utmost example of unfairness. What was it? A gift - grace.
We are sometimes treated unfairly. Skipped over for a promotion, laid off, cut from the team, graded unfairly for a project we worked hard on...these can all be classified as unfair. Yet, God asks us to offer grace to those mistreating us, just as he offers us grace every day. Don't seek to avenge the wrong - leave that to him. He even insists that we forgive the person who treated us unfairly. What?? That's impossible!
Forgive others as God, in Christ, forgives us. Oh.
So, I'm going to try to live today as God sees me (clothed in radiant garments!) practicing -- no perfecting! -- forgiveness & granting grace unbegrudgingly.
Lord, help me in this. AMEN!
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Loved this, mom! It set up my entry today so greatly because when we consider just how unfair it was for Jesus to die a death like that- we can't help but worship him!
ReplyDeleteLove you!
Mom, this was so great!
ReplyDeleteI think one of those examples may have hit home for me a little bit :) and my heart really feels lighter for realizing that! You worded it perfectly, well done! I love you so much!!