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enjoying everyday life
Trusting God When Life Isn’t Fair
Joyce Meyer
Are you going through something difficult right now, expe- the way we hoped it would. Trusting God allows us to enjoy
riencing pain or disappointment from a situation that just our lives even when everything is not the way we want it to
doesn’t seem fair? In this world, so many things are not right, be.
and you don’t have to look far to find some kind of injustice.
For instance, maybe you’ve worked harder than ever at
But one of the things I love most about God is that He’s a your job but still haven’t received a promotion or a pay
God of justice—He makes wrong things right. I really love raise. Maybe a coworker who doesn’t seem to work as hard
1 Peter 2:23, which says that when Jesus was “reviled and as yougets the promotion you wanted. I know what this is
insulted, He did not revile or insult in return; while suffering, like. Years ago when this happened to me, I immediately
He made no threats [of vengeance], but kept entrusting thought, It’s not fair!
Himself to Him who judges fairly” (AMP).
And I had a choice to make:I could choose to be angry
When we’re being mistreated or enduring something dif- and bitter toward the people involved and try to vindicate
ficult, it’s easy to want to take matters into our own hands. myself,or I could choose to trust God to make wrong things
However, the best thing we can do is say, “God, I’m going right, knowing that Hecould pay me back for any injustice
to trust You to be my vindicator.” Many people are used to done to me.
trusting God for things—for a raise, for better health, or for
the next great thing they would like to happen in their lives. I want you to know I understand what it’s like to have to
But God also wants us to trust Him through things—when make this choice, and that it is never easy. For the first 23
we’re experiencing difficulties or when life isn’t working out years of my life, I endured a lot of painful experiences that
