When Life Is Unfair | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | August 1, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. |
| 0:04.5 | Matthew 5, verse 5. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:11.9 | When Life is Unfair, was written by Tim Gustafson and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.8 | Psalm 37, verses 5 through 17. |
| 0:26.2 | Commit your way to the Lord. |
| 0:28.4 | Trust in him, and he will do this. |
| 0:31.1 | He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, |
| 0:34.6 | your vindication like the noonday sun. |
| 0:40.7 | Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. |
| 0:47.5 | Refrain from anger and turn from wrath. Do not fret, it leads only to evil. For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the |
| 0:57.8 | Lord will inherit the land. A little while and the wicked will be no more. Though you look for them, |
| 1:05.1 | they will not be found. But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity. |
| 1:12.2 | The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them, |
| 1:16.5 | but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming. |
| 1:21.3 | The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, |
| 1:27.2 | to slay those whose ways are upright, but their |
| 1:30.6 | swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken. Better the little that |
| 1:37.3 | the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked, for the power of the wicked will be broken, |
| 1:43.1 | but the Lord upholds the righteous. |
| 1:49.3 | When Life is Unfair, written by Tim Gustafson. |
| 1:54.0 | In Charles Dickens' classic novel, Oliver Twist, the sickly Oliver is born in a workhouse, |
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