A Fairy Tale

I was listening to a tape yesterday. There, William Lane Craig, well-known apologetics professor, said something nice about fairy tales.

Do you realise that fairy tales that feature a fairy Godmother usually bestows an act of grace on the hero or heroines? While the grace is given, it always comes with a condition. For instance, "If you don't come back by midnight, I'll turn you into a pumpkin!". The interesting thing is that, none of the hero or heroines ask the fairy: "How come? Why not change the situation permanently?". They just accept the gift of grace. No questions asked. Why should they? It is desirable to receive the grace, is it not? Why would Cinderella reject it and decide to keep cleaning the cinder for the rest of her life?

According to Craig, things are like that in the world we live in. God sets the conditions under which we live in. There's joy, and there's pain. While we can ask why there is so much pain and misery, we must accept that it is God's right to do what he does. We only need to accept that all that He does will be just. Christians accept God's grace. No need to ask why we are doomed if we reject His grace. It is His world, His rules. We just obey.

That's believing in a loving God, who will judge righteously.