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It's Not Fair

I struggle with this. Particularly when it seems that justice is not being served in my situation. If it doesn't come out of my mouth, it certainly is in my heart. Why do I, why do we, think this way? I think it's because we think that we deserve something. We deserve justice. We deserve to be treated right. If we are wronged, the perpertrator should be held accountable. But what if that doesn't happen? What happened to Joseph? What happened to Isaiah and Jeremiah? But more importantly, what happened to Jesus? Christ teaches the soul this, so that, as in the presence of God on a real sight of itself, it can say: 'Lord, I am nothing, Lord, I deserve nothing, Lord, I can do nothing, I can receive nothing, and can make use of nothing, I am worse than nothing, and if I come to nothing and perish I will be no loss at all and therefore is it such a great thing for me to be cut short here?' A man who is little in his own eyes will account every affliction as little, a...