I Was Just Thinking About – UNFAIRNESS.
We live in a world that can easily be described as unfair. UNICEF reports: “Time is running out for millions of children, unless the world acts now. Famine and lack of a reliable food supply are threatening the lives of approximately 80 million people - more than half of them children - in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen, and in nine additional countries across Africa and the Middle East. The numbers of children under threat are enormous. More than 2.5 million face imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition. Approximately 4 million children and adolescents may not be able to go to school. Almost 17 million people - including many children - will need lifesaving vaccines, medicine and healthcare. Caused by war, intractable violence, displacement, climate change and drought, this man-made crisis menaces the following countries: (a) Lake Chad Basin: Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria; (b) Eastern Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda; (c) Middle East/Northern Africa: Djibouti and Yemen.
The United States has its share of unfairness where there have been millions of abortions. Those not aborted are often unwanted. Some have been abused; others placed in the Foster Care System; and thousands eligible and available and waiting for adoption.
On the health front, the news reports today of a US Senator who has been suddenly afflicted with an aggressive form of Brain Cancer. The news outlets repeat that he will be kept in our “prayers” for healing. Meanwhile, in hospitals such as Shriner’s and St. Jude’s; there are hundreds of children – mostly unnoticed or unknown – who are suffering all kinds of maladies. It seems so unfair that these little ones have such challenging and debilitating maladies. While a US Senator gets national attention, there are little ones suffering equally who receive limited attention – one lad who has spent almost three-fourths of his life receiving treatments for leukemia – only to learn that it has aggressively returned. The nation will not hear about him nor will they respond accordingly - it seems so unfair.
A Hymn Lyric asks: Does Jesus care when my heart is pained, Too deeply for mirth or song, As the burdens press, And the cares distress, And the way grows weary and long? The refrain answers: O yes, He cares, I know He cares, His heart is touched with my grief. We are reminded in I Peter 5:7, “Cast all your care (anxiety) on him (Jesus) because he cares for you.” And then, in Psalm 55:22, “Cast your cares (burdens) on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.” This is our faith, hope and confidence.
Prayerfully – consider these things with me.
We live in a world that can easily be described as unfair. UNICEF reports: “Time is running out for millions of children, unless the world acts now. Famine and lack of a reliable food supply are threatening the lives of approximately 80 million people - more than half of them children - in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen, and in nine additional countries across Africa and the Middle East. The numbers of children under threat are enormous. More than 2.5 million face imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition. Approximately 4 million children and adolescents may not be able to go to school. Almost 17 million people - including many children - will need lifesaving vaccines, medicine and healthcare. Caused by war, intractable violence, displacement, climate change and drought, this man-made crisis menaces the following countries: (a) Lake Chad Basin: Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria; (b) Eastern Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda; (c) Middle East/Northern Africa: Djibouti and Yemen.
The United States has its share of unfairness where there have been millions of abortions. Those not aborted are often unwanted. Some have been abused; others placed in the Foster Care System; and thousands eligible and available and waiting for adoption.
On the health front, the news reports today of a US Senator who has been suddenly afflicted with an aggressive form of Brain Cancer. The news outlets repeat that he will be kept in our “prayers” for healing. Meanwhile, in hospitals such as Shriner’s and St. Jude’s; there are hundreds of children – mostly unnoticed or unknown – who are suffering all kinds of maladies. It seems so unfair that these little ones have such challenging and debilitating maladies. While a US Senator gets national attention, there are little ones suffering equally who receive limited attention – one lad who has spent almost three-fourths of his life receiving treatments for leukemia – only to learn that it has aggressively returned. The nation will not hear about him nor will they respond accordingly - it seems so unfair.
A Hymn Lyric asks: Does Jesus care when my heart is pained, Too deeply for mirth or song, As the burdens press, And the cares distress, And the way grows weary and long? The refrain answers: O yes, He cares, I know He cares, His heart is touched with my grief. We are reminded in I Peter 5:7, “Cast all your care (anxiety) on him (Jesus) because he cares for you.” And then, in Psalm 55:22, “Cast your cares (burdens) on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.” This is our faith, hope and confidence.
Prayerfully – consider these things with me.
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