Life Isn't Fair
Exploring God's Design: Why the Jewish People Hold a Unique Advantage in Knowing the Divine
Life Isn’t Fair
“Life isn’t fair.” The universal complaint of all mankind. Someone else has an advantage that you do not have. Isn’t that the truth? But could that really be by God’s design?
Here is a riddle for Christians: In regard to knowing God, which of these three groups of people does God give an advantage to?
- The Gentiles
- The Jews
- The Rich
It is not the rich, for sure, because Scripture says:
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
(Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:25)
The Gentiles? Wrong again. Romans chapter 3 teaches that the Jews are the ones who have the advantage, and that advantage is described as being “great in every respect.”
Their great advantage is because:
- (Verse 1) They have the benefit of being circumcised. That is, they were born Jewish and are part of Israel—the people group with whom God established a covenant to glorify Him.
- (Verse 2) They were entrusted with the oracles of God. These oracles refer to the Old Testament prophets through whom God spoke, as well as the Old Testament events through which His promises and provisions were revealed and experienced.
Given the high regard the apostle Paul had for Israel and the oracles entrusted to them by God, don’t you think there is something we can learn about God from them as well?
Let me introduce you to your Jewish Messiah, Yeshua—also known as Christ Jesus—in my book, Jesus’ Last Supper Cookbook: The What, Why, and How-To Guide to Host a Christian Passover Seder.
