Choose Life

Why has God blessed you when so many around the world are hurting? That’s a good question. So are these: 

• – Why do you have so much, when people smarter than you have lost everything?

• – Why have you never experienced imprisonment, torture or starvation when 500 million people around the world live that life right now?

• – Why do you sit in a cushioned pew free from harassment, arrest, torture and death when three billion people have to worship God in secret?

These questions keep many from having a relationship with Jesus! They see life isn’t fair, so they think, “God isn’t fair, so He has to be bad. I don’t want anything to do with him!” What does God say about life being fair?

This is what He told His good friend Moses when Moses asked the same question: “He said to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.’” – Romans 9:15

In other words, “Life is not fair!” We live in a fallen world. We asked God to step aside while we run the show. Because we do such a poor job, He steps in. He extends mercy and compassion to different people in different measures and ways. The people of God should not look at the blessings of others and be jealous. They should celebrate the good that others have been given.

“Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. Be of the same mind, one toward another.” Romans 12:15-16

Envy and strife go hand in hand.  “For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work.” – James 3:16

If you want your head to be distracted with strife, trouble, and conflict, want what other people have – that includes both natural and spiritual things. We live in a fallen world of our own choosing. So choose well.