Insight From the Packers Game

"That's not fair!" --The sum of nearly every Facebook status I read on Monday night after the Seattle Seahawks beat the Green Bay Packers. Honestly, I don't like the Packers, so I was okay with it. But in reality, it was a bad call.

If you don't like football stay with me here; there is a point. In recent conversations I have heard many people question the love of God in allowing there to be injustice and evil in the world. I feel rather silly doing this, but this is an excerpt from a song called "Truth" by Lecrae.

"You look man, "Some people say that God ain't real 'cause they don't see how a good God can exist with all this evil in the world. If God is real then He should stop all this evil, 'cause He's all-powerful right? What is evil though man? It's anything that's against God. It's anything morally bad or wrong. It's murder, rape, stealing, lying, cheating. But if we want God to stop evil, do we want Him to stop it all or just a little bit of it? If He stops us from doing evil things, what about lying, or what about our evil thoughts? I mean, where do you stop, the murder level, the lying level, or the thinking level? If we want Him to stop evil, we gotta be consistent, we can't just pick and choose. That means you and I would be eliminated right? Because we think evil stuff. If that's true, we should be eliminated! But thanks be to God that Jesus stepped in to save us from our sin! Christ died for all evilness! Repent, turn to Jesus man! " 

This is the best answer I've ever heard to this question. As humans, we long for the perfection that Adam and Eve once had in the Garden of Eden. We have an innate feeling for wanting justice, but we have no claim to it.

Thankfully, God isn't done with us here though! Last week I briefly left you with a quote that said, "I love that God doesn't destroy evil, but that He restores it." God chose not to be fair, because fair would mean eternal separation from Him-- hell. We would all be damned because not one of us could live up to His standards of perfection--they're pretty high!

Did you catch that? God chose not to be fair. Salvation -- life through the blood and resurrection of Jesus -- is not fair. That's not justice. That's grace and mercy: getting what we don't deserve and not getting what we do deserve.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."

Aren't you thankful we don't have a "fair" God?