Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. The Lord is Fair and Just but man wants equal.
Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
Proverbs 22:2: “The rich and the poor have this in common; The Lord is the maker of them all.”
No, God did not make a mistake when He made man – you and me. No matter who we are; no matter our race; no matter our sex. We are all made in the image of God Himself. God took the same things from Himself to make each of us. He did not make any one person with anything better than any other person.
We are already equal. Genesis 1:17 reminds us of this. There is nothing about one person that makes him or her inherently better or greater than any other person. We are inherently equal. We need to learn to accept that about ourselves and about others.
But we don’t accept it. We get it wrong because in our sinful nature we look for fairness and justice and equality from one another as the basis for believing what God has done. Well, God did not make a mistake. We make the mistake because we look at what you have that we do not have to decide if things are fair and just and equal for us.
We struggle with those who have and those who have not. We call it the “haves and the have nots.” Proverbs 22 tells us we will have some who are rich and we will have some who are poor. Still, we look at the status of others and wonder why we don’t have the same things that they have.
We wonder why some people are filthy rich and some people are filthy poor. We consider this to be an indication of what is unfair and unjust and unequal. We fail to see that even with this, God is still Fair and Just and Equal in how He treats us. He wants us to be fair and just in how we treat others.
Fair and Just and Equal are Truth statements about our God and they can be Truth statements about us. We ought to remember not to throw away these Truths about ourselves because of what we see in others or because of how we are treated by others.
When we see a difference in what some people have and what others do not have, we believe there is something inherently wrong that we must correct. Then man tries to make man treat man in ways that allow for equal outcomes in life because man sees this as fair and just for everyone. But equal outcomes do not define Fair and Just.
It would be easier for us to help the poor and the needy and the less fortunate if we viewed Fair and Just and Equal the way God does more than the way we do. God sees Fair and Just and Equal as the Ways we must be because they are inherently how He made us. To the Lord, Fair and Just and Equal are not outcomes to be had as much as they are conditions of our hearts that are to be given.
We cannot rightly define Fair and Just and Equal by what we see and believe to be unfair and unjust and unequal. That is like defining something warm by saying it lacks something cold. Warm is warm and cold is cold.
If we then are made in the image of the things that inherently make our God Who He is, lets understand this. There is nothing unfair or unjust or unequal about God so let’s not allow ourselves to believe there is anything unfair about who we are.
Instead, lets focus on our attitudes and make sure we live with hearts that are Fair and Just towards others. This way we will be equally the same towards everyone because God is that way with each of us. Just as there was enough manna to be had each day for each person to have all they needed, there is enough of God’s good in the earth for each of us to have enough good for our lives and to still leave some for others.
You don’t have to have so much more that you keep others from having just enough for themselves. There is nothing inherently better in you or nothing inherently less in others that can justify treating anyone without fairness and justness.
Let’s learn not to be greedy to have. But if we are going to be greedy, lets make sure it is to be greedy to give and to share and to help others. Man works really hard today make men equal to one another by legislating equal outcomes for each other. There can never be equal outcomes for men, only fair and just outcomes.
What we must do is to learn to be Fair and Just towards one another just as God is Fair and Just towards each of us. And remember, equal often is not Just and not Fair to some of us. But just as God is Fair and Just to each of us, when we are Fair and Just, it is always equally right for everyone.
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