Life's Not Fair
- notpopular110
- Jul 10, 2017
- 2 min read
Throughout my life I’ve felt the power of prayer. And throughout my life I’ve been told that God answers prayers in three ways; yes, no, maybe later. For the most part I’ve agreed with God’s decisions, maybe not at the time but looking back. God has an interesting way of doing things; while patience is not my best quality; the man upstairs sure has a way of keeping life interesting. Why is it then that when you pray and pray and pray for something and you have the perfect solution and you think God could not possibly find a better way to solve it; he doesn’t do it the way you want?
I have prayed for God to help a few certain people since sixth grade. From sixth to eighth grade I prayed for them EVERY SINGLE night; fervently. I thought that the BEST way to solve this problem is for God to simply stop their bad habits. Well in eighth grade I got an answer to my prayer. But it sure wasn’t the one I wanted. This experience, I could say, put a strain between God and me, because I thought he was a jerk. I remember breaking down, crying, saying to God, “Why would you let me pray all those prayers if this is what you knew was going to happen. I wasted my breath and you were just up there laughing at me knowing my prayers will go unanswered.” But that’s the thing. My prayers WERE answered. They just weren’t answered in the way I wanted them to be. God’s answer was, “No.” I’ve continued praying for those people. And I still don’t understand what God is thinking, but that’s okay. Because I know, He knows what He’s doing.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
God has something great planned. I don’t know what it is and maybe I never will but He does. It’s easy to get mad at God for thinking He is smarter than us (He is). It’s easy to turn away when we think He isn’t directly benefiting us (He always is). It’s easy to say that life isn’t fair whenever we don’t get our way. So yeah, maybe life isn’t fair, but death sure is. We get mad at God when he says no to us, but we deserve no. We don’t deserve any yeses; we don’t even deserve maybe laters. We are sinners; we lie, cheat, and steal. Death is more than fair for us. But God is gracious. He came to save us from our totally deserving fate. He died so that we can live. And that was not a fair price for him to pay, but he did because he loves us. So maybe our prayers don’t get answered how we want them to. Maybe life isn’t fair. But Christ gave us a luxury that is more than we could ever image we wanted. He gave us eternal life.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.