Thinking this morning about fairness...
And I've decided I don't want it.
I've fought for all my life to try to get my fair share. I want what is due to me. I want others to not push past me and drive around me when I'm in the lead, I want my share of what's on the table. I want my turn.
And then Holy Spirit speaks to me.
Do I really want my share?
Do I want my share of the pain, the sin, the punishment?
Or do I want Mercy?
I cannot have equality/ fairness/ justice to suit me and have His mercy as well.
In order to have mercy, I must give it.
That means that I need to let the other drive around me, push past me in the hall or line, get the thing that I was wanting, be promoted above me, take more than their share, and I get second, I get less and I get to cheer them on.
Mark 9:35
He sat down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and said, “Whoever wants to be first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.”
