Pro 23:17-18 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the
LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall
not be cut off.
Sometimes things just don’t seem fair. When you go through trials and you look
around at others that seem to have it so easy, it’s hard not to think that way. I
have thought that very thing. I have asked God why am I going through this, I try
to do all the things a “good” Christian is supposed to do, I go to church, I pray,
when my children were still living at home, I made sure they were in church, and I
read my Bible so why? And this was His answer: Psa 73:17-22 Until I went into
the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in
slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they
brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with
terrors. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou
shalt despise their image. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my
reins. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. When I
looked at these situations through God’s eyes, it changed my attitude. I also
learned why not me? Mat 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father
which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good,
and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. And to really think about the end
of those that don’t know Christ. When we (I) put all of that into perspective, what
do we really have to complain about?