Empower your Day in Just Seconds
By Grantley Morris
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The race of life is the most peculiar event in the world with the highest conceivable prizes and penalties. Imagine a race with people of all different ages and abilities competing in the same event. Some have the bodies of magnificent athletes. Some are sickly. Some have only one leg. A few have none. Some plod through knee-deep snow, some must hack their way through steaming jungles, some climb terrifying mountains, while others speed across manicured lawns. Some must go enormous distances. A few have only a few steps. The whole event seems too ridiculously chaotic to be considered a race. To most observers it seems the most unfair competition ever staged. Unknown to them, however, down to the minutest detail, every one of the thousands of variables is carefully weighted in the Judges scoring of each of the billions of participants. Each competitor is carefully monitored to measure the exact amount of effort exerted and pain endured, and it is by this measure that they are judged. The scoring task is so far beyond human intellectual capacity as to seem impossible, but the Judge is divine. Every advantage and disadvantage is so ingeniously considered that there ends up being absolute equality in the way every persons achievement is evaluated. Unless disqualified by not committing their lives and destinies to Jesus Christ, all participants win the major prize an eternity in the splendor of Gods presence. Additional rewards depend upon ones faithfulness, given ones individual circumstances, opportunities, natural abilities, and so on. This is where those who so far seem to have missed out, find abundant compensation, and those who have been seemingly spoilt, face a rude shock unless they were exceptionally Christlike in the way they used their privileges. In the words of Jesus, From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded (Luke 12:48), and Many who are first will be last, and the last first (Mark 10:31).
Taken from Is God Unfair?
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