It isn't Fair! - by Wendy Pointer

How many times have we cried out to God that what is happening to us; to hundreds or thousands of people in some distant country inundated by flood or starving from famine or displaced by war; or to an 'innocent' child dying of leukemia; that it isn't fair? How often have we sobbed in prayer for God to do 'something'? How often have we shouted that it shouldn't be this way? Or as Mark Buchanan in his book 'The Holy Wild' asks "God, how could you stand by, helpless?"
And the answer he gives, as condemning as it is honest, "I have done something. I created you" (Pg 87)

Every one of us can do something to ease our neighbour's pain; to lift their burden if only for a while; to walk with them along the highway of their life to give companionship, to hold their hand, to offer them love - your love and God's love.
There is always something we can do. Now and then it can be huge, life-changing, world shaking. But mostly it is something small, something that might go unnoticed. And the one thing we can do in every situation, is to pray.
James 5:16-18 tells us "The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't - not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again." (The Message)

So the next time you are tempted to cry out to God "Why don't You do something?" ......

.......... Remember that He did - He created YOU



Monday, September 12, 2011