Everyone wants to be fair. Every employee expects fairness on the job. Every marriage needs a healthy dose of fairness. There is no doubt that fairness matters in relationships. Humans want what is fair and equitable.
This leads me to believe that what happened on Golgotha’s hill as the wrath of God was poured upon His Son was truly unfair. When something happens to someone they don’t deserve, we call that “unfair.”
I was dead in trespasses and sin. Because of the fall, I was given a heritage of despair and damnation. Obviously, I was spiritually bankrupt with no hope of ever attaining the righteousness of God. There was nothing that I could do to fix this eternal problem. Death and Hell were my destiny.
Until …
Christ came and tipped the scales in my favor — some would say unjustly or unfairly. He accomplished in His death and resurrection what I was not able to on my own merit. He paid the price for that at Calvary. I was destined for eternal separation from the Creator of the universe, and He loved me before I ever knew Him. Then He sacrificed His life so mine would be saved.
There is a parable recorded in the scriptures that illustrates the nature of this unfairness in the Kingdom of God. It is found in Matthew 20:1-16:
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw...
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