Is God Fair?

There are several ways I could answer this question. If you ask the average person Is God fair, they would say no. Now what do I mean by average? In this PC culture someone may think that I am belittling someone's intelligence by calling someone average but I am not. I am using the word average as a rule or barometer on how most likely people think about God - the God of the Bible; the One and Only True God by the way. Declaring God is not fair is a statement of ignorance on those who know Him very little or not at all. Being ignorant of something does not mean a person is unintelligent, rather it means they lack knowledge about a matter.

But, of all of things to be ignorant about, the absolute worst person to be ignorant about is the nature of God. If one does not understand God's nature, you will NEVER fully understand your own nature; its absolutely impossible. Can we know God's nature? Yes. How? Only through His self revelation, the scriptures.

Now at this point there will be many that will disagree with me and say Jesus appeared to them in a dream or vision and revealed Himself to them. How would they or anyone else know for certain it was Jesus? What did Jesus say to them?  Does this encounter comport with scripture? You see experiences are subjective. No one else can validate what the person claimed they saw and heard is true. Can God communicate to us in a dream? Yes because He is sovereign. We find instances of that in the Bible, but is was never random; it was always for a purpose.  We have the more sure word of prophecy in our laps (2 Peter 1:19). The Canon is closed. Any heavenly or divine experiences we have should be subordinate or bow the knee to objective scripture. I do not see why God would need to reveal Himself in a dream when we have all we need about Him in His word.

I also will not sit and have a debate on whether someone claimed they had a prophetic dream and or vision from the Lord. 

Will a man judge God?

In Malachi 3:8 the question is asked will a man rob God? The answer is that the children of Israel were robbing God of tithes and offerings (italics mine). My point being is that if a man will rob God,  certainly he has no problem judging Him un-righteously.

When a person declares that God is not fair, what they are actually saying is God is not just, or He is not executing justice towards me; He is treating me far less that what I deserve. We have all heard the phrase, "Be careful what you ask for you just might get it!"  The last thing any person should want is for God to be fair or just. Why? Because we being the wretches that we are would be instantly incinerated into hell by the Lord. That is divine justice which most of the world will receive at the end of time. Unregenerate mankind's "goodness" is deplorable to God. Remember what I said earlier, man does not know his own nature - that it's depraved.

The wisdom of Solomon regarding the nature of man

Proverbs 14:12; 16:25 - There is a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 15:8 - The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord but the prayer of the upright is His delight

Proverbs 21:27 - The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, how much more when he brings it with wicked intent

Proverbs 20:6 - Every man will declare his own goodness, but who can find a faithful man?

Solomon's report card on the nature of man is bad, but true.

What do we need from the Lord?

In a word, pity. That involves humbling ourselves which prideful humans do not want to do. They figure it makes them look weak. Guess what? Man's strength is weak compared to Almighty God. He just refuses to accept it. What we need is the Lord's compassion, His everlasting mercy and grace. Without these virtues no one will see the Lord favorably. 

In Micah 7:18-20 we read, Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us. You will tread our sins underfoot and hurl our iniquities into the depths of the sea. You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in the days long ago.

So the prophet Micah reveals to us that God delights to show mercy. It gives Him joy to take away our sins. This is the dominate truth of the scriptures; that God is merciful and is ready to forgive and save sinners. So no God is not fair according to man's definition of fairness. In today's society that is nothing more than DEI and social justice. God is not a socialist - He is the Ultimate Evangelist.

All men are guilty before the Lord and those who are not saved currently have the wrath of God abiding on them (John 3:36). By God not being fair and delivering us from our sins instead, we have eternally avoided His justice- praise God! 

Those who desire justice/fairness from God will ultimately get what they deserve. Those of us who are saved are not getting what we deserve; rather we are receiving mercy and grace and that is because of God's love.

Those who are unsaved are also experiencing God's mercy and grace everyday they live, but because they are ungrateful, they do not thank the Lord for it. Sadly the moment things go wrong in their lives, they are quick to blame God; stating that he is not fair. Remember, everyone in life receives either mercy and grace or fairness/justice. No one EVER receives injustice from God.

           For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways says the Lord                                                              As the heavens are higher than the earth,                                                         

so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts

 Isaiah 55:8-9