Unfair

Recently something happened that was so unfair.  My daughter was called on something, yet her friends weren't.  She didn't understand why she had to comply but the others didn't.  I didn't understand either, yet made her do as she was told.  Why are some things so unfair?  I was boiling angry!  I was mad.  I was driving in my car and the anger was taking over.  How do you explain to a child that sometimes things are just unfair?  The sooner she learns to just shake it off, the better she will be because there are so many things in life that are unfair.  Then I remembered a lot of things that were unfair:

• It was unfair that God created the world, yet people chose to worship a piece of metal or stone.
• It was unfair that Mary was treated badly when she was carrying the child who would become our savior.
• It was unfair that Jesus had a crown of thorns smashed into his head.
• It was unfair that they beat him until he could barely stand.
• It was unfair that Peter denied him three times.
• It was unfair that Judas betrayed Jesus.
• It was unfair that people chose to set a criminal free, yet hung Jesus to die.
• It was unfair that people spat upon him as he was dying.
• It was unfair that he was ridiculed and laughed at as he struggled.
• It was unfair that the soldiers nailed him to the cross.  
• It was all UNFAIR!

I don't want  it to be that way.  I want to go back and make it easy for Jesus.  I want to make him comfortable, let him live a long life without suffering, pamper him, honor him, sit at his feet.  I want to make it FAIR.  I want the King of Kings to live like a King.

That wasn't the plan.  It isn't the way to salvation.  It wasn't fair that Jesus did all that for me and you.  Next time you something unfair happens to you, praise God and thank him.  The unfair things that happen to us are nothing compared to what our savior went through for us.