MPmomof3When Life Is Unfair
June 5th 2011 14:44
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
-Romans 8:28 (New Living Translation).
The book of Daniel in the Bible tells two stories of how God uses injustice and unfairness experienced by four friends to show people just how powerful he is. The four friends were Daniel himself, Hananiah (also known as Shadrach); Mishael (also known as Meshach) and Azariah (also known as Abednego). The two stories start together in a common tragedy. The homeland of the four friends, Israel, is attacked and taken over by a military superpower of their day, Babylon. The four friends are uprooted from the land of their birth and taken captive to a strange place.
As if being uprooted from his home wasn't enough, Daniel experiences political unfairness when he raises to political power in spite of his captivity and his colleaugues become jealous of his wisdom and favor with the king. They entrap him in a law that requires that he be put into a den of hungry lions if he is caught praying to God. Daniel prays anyway and is thrown to the lions. A funny thing happens in the lion's den, however. God steps in even in the midst of an unfair and unjust situation, shuts the mouths of the lions and ultimately shows everyone that God is more powerful than any injustice.
Daniel's three friends experience a similar situation. They are thrown into a fiery furnace that is so hot that the men who threw them in were instantly incinerated. They came out of the unjust situation not even smelling like smoke. People could not believe their eyes.
The moral of these stories is that unfair things can and do happen. Ultimately, however, God turns it all around.
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