God Routinely does things that aren’t “fair.” God routinely defies human logic. God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the strong. While we are sinful, God has chosen to make us His jewels. Fairness in human terms would dictate that everyone on this earth die immediately, for that is the equitable result of our actions.
Have you ever stopped and asked yourself why He bothers with man? David did in Psalm 8, where he looked at all of God’s creation and wondered What is man, that thou art mindful of him? David saw that in the infinite complexity of the universe and the majesty of His creation on Earth, God chose to love man. Having been exposed to this concept for so long, oftentimes the sheer enormity of it escapes us!
After creating an infinitely large expanse of swirling masses, after ordering it in perfect mathematical precision that man still cannot even begin to comprehend, and after filling the earth with ingeniously designed creatures in perfect balance with each other, He chose to love man: Man, whom He knew would willingly flaunt His will and try to claim the glory that was due Him; man, who would kill His messengers and murder His son, the Savior, rather than submit to their Creator.
At the end of Matthew 21, we read a parable of a householder who hired husbandmen to tend his vineyard while he was away. When the fruit was ripe, he sent his servants to the husbandmen to receive of the fruits, but the husbandmen treated his servants shamefully. If we read through the parable we see that the householder kept sending his servants. Some were killed and others beaten until at last the husbandmen killed their lord’s son. By human standards, the actions of this householder would be at best highly questionable, and possibly seem insane. Why did he keep sending servants? Why did he send his son to men he knew he should distrust? God loved even those who would kill his son, and gave them infinitely more than their “fair chance” at doing the right thing.
That is the reality we live with. We must come to grips with the fact that God did something we would think is utterly stupid if done by a man today, and he did it so we could “live.” But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom. 5:8).
God’s grace is the pinnacle of unfairness. He continuously gives us mortal sinners a way out. He watches the road, eagerly awaiting the return of his prodigal children, longing to restore us. God has already been merciful. Christ has already died for us. The only thing left to do is answer one question, a question everyone must answer either by action or omission. The chief priests and Pharisees had to answer this question in John 11:47, and let us constantly keep the unfairness of our Creator in mind as we answer this daily: “What shall we do? For this man works many signs” (NKJV).
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One