That's not fair...

…fair has been a word in the political news lately. Fair doesn’t really exist. Fairness ended in the Garden of Eden. Consider this what is fair to me most likely is not fair to you or in your eyes. When you were a child you hit your sibling back just as hard as they hit you right? RIGHT? Wrong, you hit them harder because you wanted them to hurt more than you. If you get off on a traffic charge that is only fair. But, if someone else gets off on a traffic charge that is not fair. It was fair in their eyes but not in yours. That is why I think fair doesn’t exist. When we use that word we somehow forget that sin is a part of our equation.

In this world sin infests, infects and affects everything. Land, sea, air water, relationships, wars, government everything is corrupted by sin, our sin because it comes from us. We are selfish egotistical beings by nature. I have said it before you don’t have to teach a two year old how to be selfish. You teach them how to share and they don’t want to do that. So, fair is not really a concept in reality. I think the word we actually use when considering fair is equal.

We want everyone to have an equal level field of play, equal opportunity and equal possibilities. I don’t want to get what’s coming to me or to my friends or family. I don’t want lung cancer for the lifelong smoker. I don’t want an accident for the drunk driver. I don’t want them or me to get what’s coming to me. See, I really don’t want life to be fair. Fair for someone else but not for me. What I deserve in the way of pain and punishment is far less than what I get.

However, there is another word not so much in the media but in the BIBLE. It is a word we toss around like a dog’s chew sock. It is grace. Sure we sing it is amazing, wonderful, fabulous and marvelous but do we know it is all of those things and more. Have we ever seen its beauty? Its beauty is that it makes life NOT fair. Ah, for the sweet, sweet sound of grace!  

Because of grace I’ve been set free. Because of grace my sin is forgiven, because of grace what I deserve has been assumed by another Christ. Grace makes life not fair. Where grace exists fair does not, equality yes, but fair no. I’ll take a world of grace over fair any and every day.

I may not be happy WITH it but I will be happy IN it!