"Is Life Unfair?"(Job 38:1-11)

Job 38:1-11

Life does not seem fair. We can always find some situation when life is not fair for us or for someone else. Innocent people die horribly all the time. People that we look up to and view as righteous still go through hard times. Those hard times look to be unfair.

Job is one of these people who was the most just person and yet suffered greatly. Job asks God about his unfair situation and God responds with reminding Job that he is not equal to God.

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

Job 38:1‭-‬3 ESV

These days science is growing rapidly, but the more we learn, the more we realize that we know so little. We have learned so much, but the conclusion is that we cannot know everything about God. The gap between God's greatness and man's smallness is vast and this vastness grows as we learn more.

when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:7 ESV

Everything God made was good and although it may not seem best for you, it is best for all of God's creation.  There is a vast world with many other people. All of God's creation have their place and time, and you and I are just a small part of His wonderful creation. 

“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

Job 38:8‭-‬11 ESV

God loves us more than all of his other creations. We are made in His image on the sixth day.  He cares for us more than  His other creations.

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Matthew 6:26‭-‬27 ESV

We understand from this passage that there is a gap between us and God, God made things perfectly, and God takes care of us. However, we are too limited to understand to God's plans. The remedy for when we life is unfair is to admit that we are small and trust that God loves us and takes cares of us even when things seem dark.

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