WHEN LIFE IS UNFAIR

 

I was tempted my problems

To lay to Your charge

I considered them acutely unfair;

Then You opened my heart

And showed me Your godly task

Beyond human capacity to bear;

Knowing where you had gone

I would never need to go

I sorrowed and sought my arrogance to bury;

In humility I assent Your mortal burden

So valiant, so holy

I would never in this life have to carry.

I was feeling the weight of my problems and the state of the world the other day to the point of tears when for a split second I was given to understand the reality of the Saviour's mortal life and the crucible that was His and His only and I was humbled to the core of my being....for no other could bear what He bore. Elder Renlund delivered a talk relating to this subject in last General Conference entitled "Infuriating Unfairness" that is worth while to reference when we feel our life is unfair. To his remarks I add this, the sum of the Saviour's mortal life:

• Members of His family did not at first accept Him as the Messiah (John 7:5);
• People in His home town sought to kill Him (Luke 4:16-30);
• His countrymen rejected his Messianic calling (John 1:11);
• One friend betrayed Him, another denied knowing Him (Luke 22:48, 54-62);
• In the end all His disciples forsook him and fled (Matthew 25:56);
• His enemies demanded his crucifixion (Matthew 27:22-23)

We all know how the story ended.....the climax of His life, the crucible of Gethsemane and Calvary.....surely He who has 'borne our griefs and carried our sorrows' (Isaiah 53:4) has the power to bear us up now in the thick of things in these the last days.....

Be strong no matter what happens and believe.

• Cathryne Allen