On May 23, Brian “B.J.” Webb Jr., a Wisconsin Lutheran High School (Wisco) junior and member of Atonement, Milwaukee, Wis., was taken to his home in heaven as a result of injuries he sustained in an automobile accident. Several weeks before his accident, B.J. wrote a short response in his English class to the statement “Fair is whatever God wants to do.” This response was shared with Wisco students following the accident as well as used at B.J.’s funeral service. The writing below is a testament to B.J.’s faith in his Savior.

“Fair is whatever God wants to do.”

I think that this quote is a very true statement because even though at times we may not like what God allows to happen to us and we think that he is mad at us or trying to punish us, we have to remember that God is in control and that he has our best interest in mind. So we have no right to tell God what is fair or unfair because he is in control and has the power to do anything he wants, for God gives but he can also take away. Who are we to say we are being treated unfairly when God sent his one and only Son to come from heaven to earth, to be humiliated and ridiculed by us and to finally suffer and die on a cross when he had never done anything wrong in his life. So I think that if anyone knows what is fair or unfair it is God. It is unfair for us as sinners to even be able to pray and give praise to God because we are so unworthy, but it is his unending love and amazing grace that allows us to have the privilege of claiming him as our God. So I think it is true that “Fair is whatever God wants to do.”—B.J. Webb Jr.

Reprinted from WLHS Contact, July 2009