Jeremiah 32:16-25
"Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the fathers' sins into the laps of their children after them. O great and powerful God, whose name is the LORD Almighty, great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds. Your eyes are open to all the ways of men; you reward everyone according to his conduct and as his deeds deserve." (v. 17-19)
"Life is unfair!" I remember being told this in my later years after being taught about being fair to others as I would have them treat me. On the most part, life is indeed unfair. Unfortunately, this is due to our own making. These are not "random acts of God". The unfairness of life is primarily due to men attempting to better themselves by lowering others. Our Father knows every deeds we have committed and every thought that we had imagined, and He rewards and punishes every one accordingly. This includes generation punishments for the sins of the father. The difficulties sometime are with the separation of what men and what God does to us. Unfairness is brought into this world due to men. God is always just and with holiness and purity.
The good news is that we can look to God and know that we will rewarded (and punished) for all things. Nothing will go unnoticed. More importantly, we are promised that God will not allow more than what we cannot handle. Therefore, let us walk a just life in the eyes of our Father. Let us not worry about how we may be mistreated by men, and worry about how we conduct ourselves in the eyes of God. In due time, we will be rewarded appropriately.
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