Every parent has heard the dreaded three words. They are the words that make your blood boil. The words that set off mini-explosions in your brain..."That's not fair!" At some point every child says them to their parent. Whether they are being to asked to do something they don't want to do, or they perceive that a sibling is being treated more favorably, at some point every child utters those words.
And we parents all have the same response, don't we? "Life's not fair." We want our children to know that they need to become acquainted with the harsh realities of life....it's not fair. But isn't it amazing, that while we want our children to understand that reality, we often forget its harsh truth as adults? I mean it even became a point of debate in our last election. Remember the 99% and the 1%.
There is something in us that wants life to be fair, but we know it isn't. What we are really saying when we declare that life isn't fair is that life isn't even. And while we want it to be even, we understand it is impossible for it to be that way.
The question of life is not "Why do some people seem to get all the opportunities and I get very few?" The real question is "What will I do with the opportunities I have been given?"
This week, we are going to explore a parable taught by Jesus commonly referred to as The Parable of the Talents. And you may be surprised to learn that when we, as God children say to Him, "That's not fair"; His response to us is..."Life's not fair."
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