Life is not fair
A young boy eagerly trained all year to make the school’s soccer team. He was up at dawn every morning, kicking the ball against the fence, running drills until his legs ached. Tryouts came—and he played better than he ever had. But when the list was posted, his name wasn’t there. Instead, a student whose father sponsored the team got the spot. At home, with tears in his eyes, the boy asked his dad, “Why? I did everything right. It’s not fair.” His father said, “You’re right—it isn’t fair. But life often isn’t. The question isn’t whether life is fair; it’s whether we’ll choose to trust God when it isn’t”. (more…)
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Justice questions
Life is marked by events of suffering, both great and small. At present there is great suffering due to wars in Gaza, Sudan and the Ukraine. Some of these events are the products of a natural disaster impacting entire communities with grief and loss. Others are the fruit of human evil that has a profound effect on the world. Still others are private, affecting a person of a family. In all these cases people struggle to understand why it happens. And they question God’s goodness or His justice. (more…)
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Samuel’s hills and valleys
Samuel was God’s representative in Israel in the transition from the rule of the judges to that of the monarchy. He lived in the 11th century BC as a Nazarite (like Samson and John the Baptist) dedicated to serving the Lord (Num. 6:1-12; 1 Sam. 1:11). There is an account of his life in 1 Samuel 1-28 of the Bible. The main hills and valleys in his life are shown in the graph. (more…)
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Pray for justice, mercy and peace
When a maternity hospital is bombed; when a 55 year old woman with multiple sclerosis has to be carried from her home to escape shelling; when a 5 week old baby is shot dead with his family as they try to drive to safety… What words are there?
Whatever our political views, whatever our beliefs or our circumstances, in all of us something cries out in protest against the horror of the vulnerable and innocent people of Ukraine suffering. (more…)
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