Where is it written

Certain things have a predictable outcome. You miss handle your body, develop
heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer, alcoholism and we don't expect you to
live long. You've abused your body with bad diets, too much sugar, nicotine and
alcohol and you pay the price to the grim reaper. But you go to school at
fifteen and, falling down a flight of stairs, you break your neck and die, this
we don't anticipate. This isn't fair. You're 90 years old and die in your sleep
tranquilly in your bed, this is a blessing, but you're 6 weeks old lying in
your crib and cease to inhale, (unfair but a painless demise) or snoozing in
the back of your parent's car and die of heat exhaustion (horrible way to go!)
because they forgot to deposit you at day care, this is out of harmony with
natural law, we don't forget our kids. A young Christian man dies at 42 with Lou
Gering’s disease, an obnoxious Satanist lives into his 90's serving Satan.
Psalm 37:1 "Fret not because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of
iniquity, for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the
green herb." A plane crashes and kills all but 5 people. What made them the
lucky ones? Luke 13:2 "do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners
than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no,
but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."

Things just happen. It's called chance, not justice, not fair, just old fashioned since-the-beginning of time, chance. People have time to prepare for the death of aging parents or
relatives with chronic illnesses, but it's a heavy blow when a kid goes to
school to get and education and is shot by a strung out peer on a thrill
seeking tour. Some things we can recover from, we can retrieve our balance,
we've had time to prepare, it was expected. But how do you regain equilibrium
when someone goes without saying goodbye. When something isn't fair. What's
fair? What book or contract promises we'll die old and "healthy". Where is it
written, please, I want to know. It must be written somewhere or people
couldn't proclaim early deaths as unfair, unjust or against nature.

People used to have lots of kids hoping that a few would live long enough to care for them
in their old age, so obviously the early termination of life isn't new. There
is no good time to die, no correct age to hang it up, just magical numbers
called by some game master in the sky. He calls your number and bingo, you're
gone. He's the only one that knows what's fair. Only he knows we don't die, that
sudden departure from here is a sudden entrance into eternity.

What's fair? It's fair we give him credit for knowing what he's doing, sure we can question
him, he allows that, but we have to place our trust in him. We are all part of
a long line of unfair circumstances going back generations too numerous to
count to the beginning of time. Was it fair that the first couple were evicted
from their home because of a lousy piece of fruit. Was it fair the first
murder victim was because of an acceptable sacrifice. Was it fair that hundreds
of people felt the water rise up over their heads while eight people floated
off on a zoological raft. Was it fair that a child died because his parents
committed adultery (David and Bathsheba) or that a mother watch her son die
spread eagle on a cross after being spit on and beaten? Was it fair that Jesus
didn't raise everyone to life that died while he was on earth, just a select
recorded few? Was it fair to God that he made us to love him and we look for
gods under rocks, rivers and valleys. We look every where but up. Life is
unpredictable. Death is predictable, we'll all die unless we're here at the
Lord's return then who gives a toot.

Treat everyone like you'll never see them again...in this life. Expect the unexpected and rejoice when it doesn't happen.

Isaiah 57:1-2 says, "The righteous perishes, and no man takes it to heart:
merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is
taken away from evil, He shall enter into peace, they shall rest in their beds,
each one walking in his uprightness." Now, that's justice.

We're all born with life time guarantees, just no guarantee of the life time. It is written,
however, that once we shed this building (our body )all unpredictability will
vanish. That contract is sign sealed and delivered in writing. Rev 21:4 "And
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, there shall be NO MORE DEATH,
nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain for the former things have
passed away."