Good Morning Friends,
“God is just: He will pay back trouble to those
who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This
will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with
his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey
the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting
destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of
his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be
marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you
believed our testimony to you.” (2 Thessalonians 1:6-10)
Life is not fair. Sometimes good people suffer
and those who cause the suffering prosper. But God promises a day when justice
will prevail. It won’t happen because the world finally wakes up and everything
becomes fair and just in this life. It will happen when God intervenes in the
world to bring His justice at the Second Coming.
I like the story of the couple returning by
ship to New York after a lifetime of missionary service. As the ship pulls in
to the dock they see a crowd waiting to welcome them home and celebrate, but
when they disembark they realize the crowd is for someone else, some celebrity
and that no one is there to welcome them home. The man turns to his wife and
expresses his disappointment and frustration, it just isn’t fair. The wife
responds simply, “Remember, we’re not home yet.”
You work hard and don’t get the reward you
deserve. You stand up for what is right and holy and you get ridiculed and put
down. In some places and some times, you get imprisoned or even killed for your
allegiance to Jesus. Children get sick and young people die. Life just isn’t
fair. Remember, it’s not done yet. It won’t be done until Jesus comes, and then
justice will prevail. Count on it! If you cling to Jesus even when it hurts and
is hard, in the end, it will be evident you were right.
His, by Grace, Steve
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