Greetings Dear Reader,
I suppose that at the time of this writing we think we have
a clear understanding of what injustice is.
Whether it is the death of an innocent man or the violence of protestors
against innocent business owners, we see injustice and know it. We may not understand it based on our
perspective but the Father hates injustice.
Questions spring to mind when one states this. They are questions that cannot be answered in
this short venue but they are worth pointing out. If God hates injustice why does he allow it at
all? If God hates injustice why does he
allow bad things to happen to good people?
I am going to address these briefly but there are those who will not
like the answers.
The first is this, that God allows injustice because he has given
us free will. We are not automatons
forced to love him. If we choose to act
in a way that is unloving, it carries consequences. Those consequences are not always seen immediately
so we doubt them. The Father will make
all things right even if it is not done in our time.
The second is that we make a great assumption when we ask
the question of God allowing bad things to happen to good people. We assume that we are good. We mean people like us. The difficulty in this thinking is our
standard for comparison. We compare our
good to the evil in the world and presume that we are not so bad. We learn from God that our very best is filth
compared to his holiness. Our righteousness
is nothing and, therefore, we do not deserve good from God.
The truth is that he gives us great good anyway. Whatever we have in life that is good is a
gift from the Father. He goes to the
extreme in being good to us by allowing the Son to be the payment for our
sin. All he asks of us is that we love
him and love each other. We think we are
good but we do not even obey those simple requests.
God does hate the injustice we visit upon each other. We need to also consider that we are unjust
with him. We judge his motives and
mistrust his plans. We challenge his
sovereignty and question his love for us.
If we look at what he has commanded us to do honestly, we find that we
are lacking.
God hates injustice so much that he is working out a way for
us to choose to love him so that his justice can be satisfied. When my brother’s dog bit my niece, he could
have put the dog down. Instead, he found
a way to rehome the dog, showing his love for a broken canine and giving justice
and protection to his daughter. The
Father does the same for us on a universal scale. He finds the path to satisfy his justice and
his love for us. He only asks that we
love him in return, Dear Reader. He asks
that we use that love to trust his justice.
He promises that there will be complete justice in the end.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human story is part of the great story that leads
to the Father getting everything back to Good.
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