You’ve been married for a decade and can’t get pregnant. Your son was assaulted in a roadside public bathroom. You were downsized from the workplace after 20 years of faithful service. Not fair.
On the national scene, we hear of proposed legislation that redistributes veterans’ benefits to illegal immigrants. We watch TV and see how fires out west are obliterating whole communities. And movie theaters are seeing as much blood spilled on the chairs as they are on the screen. Not fair.
Then on the international stage, we hear of monsoon rains from Pakistan to Burma that left over a million people homeless, while claiming the lives of over 100 in India. Dozens of abductions among Nigerian women by the radical Islamic militant group, Boko Haram. Trumped-up charges by Iranian and Pakistani governments have landed Pastor Saeed and Asia Bibi in horrible prisons. All not fair.
Injustices prevail all around the globe; some are simply natural phenomena while others are man-made. We can’t escape them. Everywhere we look, people are being hammered by what most would agree are unfair occurrences.
Who among us hasn’t wrestled with the question: “Why does God allow something like this to happen?” Fair question to ask. Why not come this week to learn about the similar question once posed by the Father of Israel, Abraham, who inquired: “Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
