God Is Always Just!
"As for the Almighty, we cannot find Him;
He is excellent in power, in judgment and
abundant justice; He does not oppress."
Job 37: 23
We’ve all heard young children say it:
“But that’s not fair!” And we may have said it
ourselves. Life is filled with “unfair” moments.
Tragedies, disasters, genocides, and others lead us to ask why
God allows such things to happen. The Old Testament character,
Job, certainly had grounds for such a complaint.
What Job ultimately discovered is that fairness is not the issue.
Rather, justice and righteousness are. Was it fair for Job’s family
and livelihood to be destroyed for seemingly no reason? Not on
the surface. But beneath the surface (which Job didn’t see until
the end of his deep dive into God’s character), God was being
just in His judgments and His use of
power.
It was more important for Job to know God than to have his
life of smooth sailing be undisturbed. At the beginning of Job’s
saga, he was angry with God for being
unfair. By the end, He
was worshiping God as the all-powerful Creator and Judge of
all things (Job 42:1-6).
God’s ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9).
But even when we don’t understand His ways,
we can trust in His character.
"There is nothing that I have done that can
stand the touchstone of God’s justice."
John Bunyan
