“You say, ‘The LORD’s way is not fair!’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair?” – Ezekiel 18:25
This passage reminds me of a sermon I heard from Voddie Baucham, where he tackles the question “If God is so powerful and good, why do bad things happen?” He answers, “You’re not asking the question properly…here’s how you ask that question properly. You look me in my eyes and you ask me this: how on earth can a holy and righteous God know what I did, and thought, and said yesterday, and not kill me in my sleep last night?”
I am often tempted to be bitter when things happen to me that I feel I don’t deserve. But this passage makes me realize: who am I that thinks to judge the ways of God? I am but a sinner, and my only redemption is in Jesus who gave himself up in love on the cross for us.
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner”
– Anonymous