The Justice of God

UV 3737/10000 The Justice of God Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore He will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him. Isaiah 30 v 18 We can expect perfect justice only from God. The justice dispensed by earthly authorities only has a semblance or appearance of justice and often papers over exploitation, injustice, inequality. The Lord God, the uni-verse says in contrast, LONGS to show grace to us. He is eager to find opportunities to vindicate us, to help us, to uplift us from oppression. Even when we go wrong, He desires to show His grace. He is not only just but He is compassionate. Hence, should we fight against injustice or just wait passively for the Lord to act. The sense of the word is that we need to do whatever lies within our means to undo the injustice, to expose the perpetrator, to have it remedied. But at no point, should we hate the oppressor or be violent in our response to injustice. Jehovah did not approve the act of Moses in beating an oppressive Egyptian to death when the latter was needlessly whipping a fellow Jew. Moses had to face the consequences of his act and had to flee to the wilderness. Eventually, the Lord forgave Moses for His impulsiveness and appeared to him in the burning bush on Mount Sinai. Even when Moses was reluctant to take the mantle of leadership, the Lord showed compassion and forgave Him. We need to wait patiently and expectantly for the Lord to act and not in any way take the law into our own hands to punish the offender. The period of wait is a time the Lord will use to groom and shape us to fulfill our leadership and spiritual potential. During this time, we can augment our faith and confidence in the justice of the Lord by reading, studying and meditating on the Word, by recalling past instances when the Lord set right things in our lives when circumstances were adverse, when we were falsely implicated, when we were betrayed or let down even by our near and dear ones.