Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
It doesn’t sound fair, does it, the pronouncement in today’s lectionary first reading from Ezekiel 18 that someone who was good and became bad will die, despite that past goodness… while someone who was bad and turned good will live with God, despite that past badness?
It doesn’t seem fair, does it, that in Matthew 5, Jesus advises us:
“Settle with your opponent quickly while on the way to court. Otherwise your opponent will hand you
over to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison. Amen, I say to you, you will not be released until you have paid the last penny.”
It doesn’t seem fair, does it, that as we’re told in Psalm 130, God sees our wickedness but longs to forgive us and bring us back into His family?
No, none of it seems fair. And probably, it isn’t. But then, God’s not about fairness.
May we be ever grateful for this God, who loves us beyond our understanding and cares less about fairness than on bestowing grace and mercy on us as we struggle to draw closer to Him.
