It Isn't Fair!
Theme for this Week: Banishing Bitterness
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
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Key Bible Verse: See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many (Hebrews 12:15, NIV). Bonus Reading:1 Peter 3:912
After a draining year of preparing for the two-hour ordeal, I'd confidently arrived at the grad school to defend my master's thesis. Eager to move on into the Ph.D. program, I answered my professors' questions and defended my conclusions. Then I left the room while they deliberated. When I returned, they informed me I'd passed. "But," the supervisory prof added, "the graduate committee has rejected your application into the doctoral program." He explained the school's reasoning as I fought back tears.
Feeling cheated, I raced home, slammed the door, and started sobbing uncontrollably. "The administration led me to believe I'd be admitted to the doctoral program if I completed the master's," I snuffled to my alarmed wife. "It isn't fair!"
But as the months dragged by, I began to glimpse the truth that, while life is unjust, God can be trusted. I chose to believe that God was at work for my ultimate good.
Because of this setback, events unfolded that led me to my current position: my most fruitful and fulfilling dozen years in ministry. And in 1996 I walked across the stage to receive my doctorate from another institution.
Rick Ezell in Defining Moments
My Response: A setback that I'll offer to God for His reshaping is
Thought to Apply: A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
Charles Buxton (writer)
Adapted from: Defining Moments (InterVarsity, 2001).
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Dear God, help me to accept that wrongs I've suffered are Your problem, while resentments are my problem—and a sin.
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