Why do the
wicked live on? (Job 21:7).
There’s the crux of
the matter. I know bad things happen to good people, but if it at least seemed
like the scales were balanced, then I could say, Well, trouble comes
to us all in equal measure.
But that’s not how
it seems. While I’m struggling to pay my bills… while I’m suffering through
illness and injury… while my kids are making bad choices causing me to lose
sleep, my neighbor just bought another boat. Why does he need two boats? How is
that fair, God?
It’s not so much
that good people suffer, but that bad people so often seem to get a pass. Why
do they have the advantage?
Near the end of the
1989 movie Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character Ray Kinsella confronts baseball right fielder
Shoeless Joe Jackson. Kinsella complains how he did all the work and went to
all the expense to build a baseball field in the middle of his struggling farm,
and he’s about to go under.
Kinsella: Never once have I
asked, What’s in it for me?
Jackson: What are you
saying, Ray?
Kinsella: I’m saying, What’s
in it for me?
Looking at the
seeming disparity between the lifestyles of the rich and famous and that of the
average believer, can you understand why Job thought life seemed unfair?
TODAY’S MEDITATION
Have you ever asked, What’s
in it for me?
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