Life is unfair, but...

I awoke too early this morning with concerns over a situation. I felt people had gone around me and behind my back. I felt a very negative person had managed to drag a few more people down with her. I was mad.  I was hurt. I felt like I was pushed out without any say. I was afraid.  I felt my opinion did not count. I, honestly was contemplating ways to be vindictive...in a Christian way,  of course (not possible!).

I finally stopped dwelling on the hurt and started praying.  God led me to do my devotions at 3:00 a.m. instead of waiting. The devotion was Matthew 10:29-31 and Psalm 139. 

29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.[a] 30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

1You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! 18Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you. 19If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! 20They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? 22I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

After reading these, who could feel left out or vindictive. God loves me! Praise God. GOD VALUES MY OPINION.  God wants what is good for me.  God knows everything I have done (good and bad) and everything I will do,  and HE STILL LOVES ME! Now, I feel good!  Life is good. 

...but what about that"situation? "  Well, not only does God love me and know me,  but He loves the other people in this situation and He knows them too! He is a big God, and He is a loving and merciful God.  He can love us all,  and He can help all of us love each other. 

God has a plan. God is in control!  Thank you, God that you are in charge of everything, because we sure can make a mess of things all by ourselves!