Fairness Pt 2

Ok I feel I need to apologize for my last post. It doesn't make much sense. I know what I meant to say it just all came out at once and got messy. It like diarrhea of the keyboard. (I just made myself not hungry) So I've been doing some pondering and soul searching I guess and I'm a little farther along than what i was. I've realised a few things. Fairness isn't a valid criteria to try to judge life through. We judge everything through the eyes of fairness. If something isn't fair we go and pitch a fit about it. But the only time we really get our pantys in a hitch is when where the ones getting the shaft. If someones cookie is nicer/bigger/more chocolate chips than mine I'm not happy. I had a hard time accepting this. I asked, "If fairness is not an issue then what's going to motivate me to go help people? If fairness doesn't exsist then childeren dying of starvation and treatable illnesses is somehow ok. It might be unfair, but fairness isn't real in the sense we think it is, so its ok." I didn't want to believe that. Then I realized I really wasn't doing that much to help people in the first place, so the notion of "fairness" wasn't really that motivational. I'm pretty selfish like that.

So the question must be asked what should motivate me to help the needy. What should motivate me to make this world a better place. I don't think answer is fairness. I think that its love. I think that Jesus fed the 5000 people who followed him out into the hills not because it was an act of social justice, but because he loved them. A lot of the times when Jesus healed or helped someone the gospels say that "He had compassion on them" or "He looked on them with compassion." And that makes this whole idea of helping people a lot harder. I should love poeple, and helping people because you love them is a lot different than making it an issue of social justice.