God IS unfair!

Probing Proverbs 8:30-31 I was the architect at his side. I was his constant delight, rejoicing always in his presence.  And how happy I was with the world he created; how I rejoiced with the human family!

This is one of the saddest realities of the world’s wrong view of God. The god’s that struck out against man from Olympus, playing games with them, as though they were pawns on a chess board, have very little to do with the God of the Bible. In truth, ALL other gods control through fear, view humans as slaves to serve them…and sadly the eternity they offer is pathetic. 

From becoming nothing and “one” with the universe… to living again and again, millions of times…or becoming a “little” god that has many wives…unless you are unfortunate enough to be a woman…then you get to be perpetually pregnant and populate a planet…or the eternity offered may require some sacrifice you make…noble or not…to gain a special place that only a few others have earned…or even perpetual sex with a harem.  

God...the only real One…is the very opposite. Humans were the “crown” of His creation…the apple of His eye. It brought Him nothing but pleasure when He created us. His intention was for us to live together with Him forever. He loved us so much that He gave us something that no other creation on earth had…a free choice. Humans were the ones that chose to learn good and evil by experiencing evil.

Even after we sinned – He cared for us. The world portrays an angered God – chasing Adam and Eve away from the garden because He was mad at them. Listen to what God states:

Genesis 3:22–24 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

If man had eaten from that tree, he would have lived forever separated from God. Instead, in love God protected man and drove Him out of the garden, so even though his body would die, God’s plan to redeem what man had lost could happen.

Many say “God is unfair” – they are RIGHT! Fair is – you get what you deserve! If God was fair, He would have left man with no choice but to pay for his own sin, by being separated from Him forever. If God was fair, Jesus Christ would never had humbled Himself to become incarnate, allow Himself to be tortured to death, receive the wrath of God on sin for us, die, and after three days in the grave come back to life…only to offer us forgiveness of our sins, and cancellation of our debt of sin. STILL…not forcing anyone to enter into that relationship, instead giving us the choice to accept it or reject it.  God is unfair – it’s called GRACE!

What is this grace? To be slaves? To serve the master? To earn heaven? Those that believe and teach that only expose their lack of study of the Word of God and their lack of integrity. Yes, I serve my master, not because I have to, but because I want to!

Matthew 20:26–28 “It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

In fact, Christ is STILL serving us at the right hand throne of the Father!

1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous

Saved to be enslaved? Nothing further from the Truth! Not only are we His friends, but also we are family forever.

John 15:15  “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

Galatians 4:6–7 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

All other faiths have the same plan: you work for your salvation and to maintain it. ONLY one plan is different – God’s! He came to pay for sin, died to make that payment, rose again from the dead to cancel that debt and now offers it to us. We cannot add or take away from it…only accept it or reject it! We also cannot lose what He bought!

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?  For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Once you enter into a relationship with God – He owns you…you don’t own you!

Ephesians 4:30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

You are “sealed”, that means God has marked you as His until the day Jesus returns!

Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

That means all – past, present and future!

1 John 5:11–13 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.  He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.  These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

How many this morning had to look in the mirror to see what gender they were? Silly, yes! Why? Because we don’t “hope” what gender we are…we KNOW. God did not bring us into relationship so we could “hope” that we have eternal life…we can “know!”

God is unfair…and I thank Him soooo much everyday that He is. I thank Him for His mercy, grace and forgiveness! For inviting me to become part of His family; living everyday with Him as my Dad, my Friend, my Lord and Master. What about you?  He rejoices every time someone joins His family.