Job

[jasJis]

Socrates,
It's not so deep, really. That's just evident in the Mystery of God. He's not arbitrary, He is all Good. We don't know His reasoning and the justice of His acts at times. I'm sure the Egyptian moms and dads who woke to their first born children being dead could not even begin to fathom the Good of it, only the evil that seemed to be inflicted upon them. We are responsible for doing Good and doing Evil because God allows us to do either, of our choice. God, with perfect mercy and justice, counteracts the evil inflicted undersevedly on us by others by also letting us benefit by the Good done by others, namely His Son, as well as others who are sources of Grace in our lives. {But for the Grace of God acting through my in-laws, I wouldn't have met such a wonderful, their daughter, who's been my wife for more than 20 years. I certainly didn't "earn" her!} We are too quick to say "Not fair" when things go bad, and rarely say "Not fair" when things go better than we deserve.