“Life is unfair to everyone in different aspects. Someone is emotionally broke, someone is financially broke. Just that, while complaining always remember there are millions still struggling to be you or what you are.”
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10“Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 11Slaughter it in the Lord’s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 12Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar. 13Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. 14But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.b(29:10-14)EXODUS 29-30
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The unfairness of life is something I have wrestled with for as long as I can remember. I have often tried to use faith or spirituality as a way to soften it or even avoid it. If I’m honest, much of my faith at different points has been driven by a desire for protection from pain, from loss, from uncertainty, from what might happen next. But when I actually sit with Scripture, that illusion fades. The Bible never suggests life will be fair. Good people suffer. Bad people sometimes thrive. Everyone carries a burden of some kind. Jesus never promises to remove hardship. Instead, He tells us to count the cost and to follow Him anyway.
God never asks me to carry tomorrow. He does not give me the strength to solve what is coming or the clarity to control outcomes. He gives me energy, grace, and courage for today. When I try to live ahead of myself by anticipating pain, rehearsing failure, or fearing loss, I exhaust strength I was never meant to have yet. Faith is not about predicting or preventing suffering. It is about trusting that today I am fully equipped. Tomorrow will have its own provision, but that belongs to God, not me.
This changes how I understand the promise of faith. The gift is not protection from pain but relationship with the Creator. He gives enough strength to tell the truth today, enough love to respond with grace today, and enough discipline to choose what is right today. He does not overwhelm me with the weight of a lifetime. He asks for faithfulness in the narrow space of now.
Scripture makes it clear that faithfulness is not necessarily rewarded on our timeline. Hebrews reminds me that many lived faithfully, suffered deeply, and never saw what they hoped for. And yet they were commended. Their lives mattered not because of visible success, but because they trusted God one day at a time. That reframes everything. I do not need to see the ending. I only need to live today well. If my life plays even a small role in God’s greater story, then today is where that role is played.
God does however, give me moments of joy, beauty, and meaning each day, not by removing hard things, but by meeting me in them. He is bigger than pain, failure, and unfairness. Joy therefore is not the absence of the hard but rather the peace that comes in facing difficulty honestly in love and persistence.
The unfairness of life is something I have wrestled with for as long as I can remember. I have often tried to use faith or spirituality as a way to soften it or even avoid it. If I’m honest, much of my faith at different points has been driven by a desire for protection from pain, from loss, from uncertainty, from what might happen next. But when I actually sit with Scripture, that illusion fades. The Bible never suggests life will be fair. Good people suffer. Bad people sometimes thrive. Everyone carries a burden of some kind. Jesus never promises to remove hardship. Instead, He tells us to count the cost and to follow Him anyway.
God never asks me to carry tomorrow. He does not give me the strength to solve what is coming or the clarity to control outcomes. He gives me energy, grace, and courage for today. When I try to live ahead of myself by anticipating pain, rehearsing failure, or fearing loss, I exhaust strength I was never meant to have yet. Faith is not about predicting or preventing suffering. It is about trusting that today I am fully equipped. Tomorrow will have its own provision, but that belongs to God, not me.
This changes how I understand the promise of faith. The gift is not protection from pain but relationship with the Creator. He gives enough strength to tell the truth today, enough love to respond with grace today, and enough discipline to choose what is right today. He does not overwhelm me with the weight of a lifetime. He asks for faithfulness in the narrow space of now.
Scripture makes it clear that faithfulness is not necessarily rewarded on our timeline. Hebrews reminds me that many lived faithfully, suffered deeply, and never saw what they hoped for. And yet they were commended. Their lives mattered not because of visible success, but because they trusted God one day at a time. That reframes everything. I do not need to see the ending. I only need to live today well. If my life plays even a small role in God’s greater story, then today is where that role is played.
God does however, give me moments of joy, beauty, and meaning each day, not by removing hard things, but by meeting me in them. He is bigger than pain, failure, and unfairness. Joy therefore is not the absence of the hard but rather the peace that comes in facing difficulty honestly in love and persistence.
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