Justice Will Roll Down

This last Sunday at church the song played during offertory was one of my favorites.  I leaned over to my five year-old Josh and said, “Do you know what this song is about?  She’s singing about how someday we will see God’s justice.  Even when it seems like people get away with doing bad things, God is watching and he will take care of it someday.”  Josh’s eyes brightened and he said, “Like when Danny bites me?  Awesome.”

Don’t we all long for God’s justice!  To know He has seen the hurts of our heart and wrongdoers will not go unpunished.  I have found such freedom in God’s justice.  I naturally tend to be a right fighter and this used to make it hard to work with kids who came from difficult families through foster care and group home work.  My love for these children made me wish I could see justice done to those who had hurt them.  Realizing now that those people will someday face a God whose love for these children is so much greater than my own and whose justice is perfect has instead allowed me to pray for the salvation and repentance of these families with a holy fear. I now have a compassion for those who I used to only make me feel frustration and resentment. I have actively learned what it means to pray for my enemies and do good to those who have persecuted those that I love.  I am free to choose merciful love because my God’s justice will be perfect.