My little addition to Our Daily Bread (11/30/11):
So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone. (Romans 5:18 HCSB)
In my jobs, I have a lot of colleagues in their teens and early twenties who complain about things not being fair. I guess I don’t understand how someone could live more than a decade without learning that “fairness” is an illusion. The only thing fair in this life is the county fair (and that’s run by people, so many ribbon-less 4H kids will tell you it’s not fair either). But having been raised in a family of faith, I learned early that neither the heritage of sin passed down since Adam nor God’s solution through His Son Jesus Christ are “fair.” No one gets asked whether they want to be a descendent of Adam, so it’s no wonder that we all fall short, but for some reason we (not sure if this is humanity wide or just primarily American) want the solution to be more do-it-yourself and therefore more “fair.” But it’s not, since He did the work and for that I say PRAISE THE LORD!
- Andy Jentes
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