Be Still And Know

Psalm 44:17-18 NLT 'All this has happened though we have not forgotten you. We have not violated your covenant. Our hearts have not deserted you. We have not strayed from your path.' Scripture makes it clear, the rain falls on both “the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45). Our human framework for fairness is a million miles away from how God perceives the creation. There is only one righteous one, and that is God. I am no more than a redeemed creature who owes my life entirely to God’s mercy. I was delivered from my fractured state by grace alone and not as a consequence of my actions or worth. Fairness describes behaviour that is “reasonable and right”. God is completely unreasonable, yet always right. How can a crucified thief in the moment of a ‘deathbed’ confession of faith gain access to paradise (Luke 23:43)? How can it be fair that those who labour in the fields for one hour receive the same pay as those who have laboured all day (Matthew 20:12)? God looks beyond the outward appearance of fai