Life's Not Fair, but We Can Still Treat People Fairly

We hear it all the time: Life’s not fair.

Indeed, sometimes it seems life isn’t fair. Some people have good health; others don’t. Some people have wealth; some people don’t. Some people struggle to make it through a single day; others seem to float along day after day with no troubles. 

Often times, tough, I think the “life’s not fair” mentality is used as an excuse to justify not getting what we want - or more importantly, why OTHERS don’t get what they want. 

Families suffer in poverty, children die of preventable diseases, people are unemployed, clean water isn’t available to entire communities - and our response is “life’s not fair.” We may not say it out loud, but the underlying idea goes something like this:

• “I work hard for what I have.”
• “I can’t do anything about those people’s problems.”
• “I have my own problems to deal with.”
• “Life’s not fair!”

True - life doesn’t seem fair. But, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t treat people fairly. The first part of Micah 6:8 says we are to “Do justice.” In other words, “Do what is fair and just to your neighbor” (The Message) 

The key word here is “DO” - do justice. Maybe this blog is just for me - and that’s okay - but, I’m guessing I’m not alone. I need to do better about “DOING” justice - genuinely treating people fairly, not thinking more highly of one group of people versus another, not thinking “life’s not fair” when I see someone struggling…but instead DOING something about it.

There’s really no reason why I can’t.