MY FRIENDS, IS LIFE FAIR TO A CHILD OF GOD?

Sep. 2, 2016

MY FRIENDS, IS LIFE FAIR TO A CHILD OF GOD?
Mrs. White tells us, “the faithful Job, in the day of his affliction and darkness, declared: “Let the day perish wherein I was born…..But ”From the depths of discouragement and despondency Job rose to the heights of implicit trust in the mercy and the saving power of God. Triumphantly he declared “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him: … He also shall be my salvation.” because “I know that my Redeemer liveth, And that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, Yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, And mine eyes shall behold, and not another.” Luke 19:25-27 (KJV) Like Job ”From the depths of discouragement and despondency suffering and pain we must also  rise to the heights of implicit trust in the mercy and the saving power of God and Triumphantly we must declare with passion under any and all trying circumstances of life’s disappointments, “they who endures to the end shall be saved.” “Because my Redeemer liveth.”

My friends,  not just our suffering or pain but in defeating the enemy on the front lines of the battle field, because on the front lines is where our endurance will be tested because Satan knows once this gospel of the kingdom has been preached into all the world as a witness to all the nations, the end will come.” And sin and Satan will be no more. In (Luke 10:17-18) a short-term reconnaissance mission Christ sends out seventy on the front lines.

“They return with joy saying even the demons are subject to them in His name.” Then Christ says with excitement, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. That vision gave him the assurance that Satan was a conquered and broken foe and one day, sin and sinners would be no more. And with anticipation His focus returned to the mission which was to endure to the end when He could finally say “it is finished.”

And because it was finished, He has given us the authority and power to also trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt us.” Luke 10:17-19 (KV) And like Jacob to endure sometimes we have to wrestled with God all night and sometimes nights turn into days and maybe years before we receive that divine blessing we seek.

But my friends, God’s promises assure us that “those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” Is. 40:31 (NKJV) So our challenge today is to focus on Calvary and realize Christ himself was not exempt from pain and suffering. “Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

[So in the midst of our storm it is alright to ask] “was life ‘fair’ to Christ? [which then allows us to ask ourselves is it fair to His children who seek His kingdom? And if we are one of Gods children,] the cross [should] demolished for all time the basic assumption that life will be fair.” My friends, “Christ had a goal to point the world to his Father and show us how much he loves us.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness.” (Phillip Yancy, Dissappointment With God) And like Job our mission statement must be, “I know that my Redeemer lives…… Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another.” Oh how our heart should yearn for that moment.