Injustice
Reflects on suffering and injustice from a Christian perspective, drawing parallels to the biblical character Job, and emphasizing God’s role as a comforter and advocate.
Tags: God, Hope, Injustice, Law of Sowing and Reaping, Pain, Patience, Suffering
The law of sowing and reaping does not explain everything in this life. I know people who are reaping things they did not sow. That suffering, the pain of not knowing why something happened, fills the heart with frustration and with that horrible feeling that God has forgotten.
This is called injustice, and the good news is that God also has a solution for it. He is your advocate. Even when pain enters your life in an inexplicable way, as it did with Job, He will raise a banner in your favor in the end (Isaiah 59:19).
Job’s three friends went through every hypothesis and assumption they could find, trying to explain where Job’s fault must have been. But that was not the answer. It was injustice, and the only way through was to wait.
In the middle of that waiting, it is normal to lose patience. It is normal to complain to God about His silence. It is normal to feel the temptation to give up. But that is where the voice of the Father enters, lifting you from mourning and saying to you what He said to Jerusalem: “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me” (Isaiah 49:15-16 NIV).
This word is for you today: even though you have not finished reading the book of your life, He finished writing it a long time ago. And it is not just any ending. It goes like this:
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.’ He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children’” (Revelation 21:4-7 NIV).