Was reading 2 Corinthians today and was struck by Paul's language...I use the English standard Version...8:13...."I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness, your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness...."
If "fairness" is a good word equivalent for whatever Paul used in the Greek,how interesting...Most of us - I certainly do - claim that God is just and holy, but not necessarily "fair"...And his providence is often not fair, humanly and horizontally speaking -but here he is demanding that we should, in fairness, make up the lack of his own providence....Because it is "unfair" not to....
What a serious reality it is to be part of the body of Christ...What a serious calling it is to balance Christian truths...
Wow!
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Interesting!
As North Americans, we are SO fair-oriented. Give me my rights! We have known so many rights and privileges, it is difficult to even know what "fair" is. We are so blessed. God is certainly NOT fair. Just and amazingly good. But NOT fair, at least by our definition.
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