Confession Of The Moment
I have CRAVED for justice these past few weeks more than I ever have in my life.
Until this point I didn't even know one could crave for such a thing. Justice is an amazing word. Up until recently, I never thought much about it. It is usually used when referring to something political or a war on terror or a concept discussed in a philosophy class. I'm starting to realize it's much more than that.
To me, justice means correction...righting what is wrong...a balancing of the scales. I see how this world is. I see how people's lives are. I see how my own life is. In seeing all these things I come to the same conclusion - there is something wrong. Something needs correcting. Something needs to be righted. Something needs to be balanced out. In short, this entire plane of existence DEMANDS justice.
I believe this world is so messed up because of sin. Sin threw this place all out of whack. It unbalanced the scales.
Maybe sin and justice are bitter enemies, but they are not equal. One cannot have sin and justice existing in the same place at the same time; however, the presence of justice destroys what is sinful. As a result, I believe the true presence of justice can only be manifested in someone who is sin-less. The very idea of justice demands this...as if we were wired to know someone or something is greater than us.
There really is something wrong with this world. There is something wrong with us. There is something wrong with me too. I find myself wanting to see the day where the One who is greater than all sin erases all the wrongs and brings things back to the righteous balance - an existence of justice we have yet to experience. Until that day, all I can do is wait.
Until this point I didn't even know one could crave for such a thing. Justice is an amazing word. Up until recently, I never thought much about it. It is usually used when referring to something political or a war on terror or a concept discussed in a philosophy class. I'm starting to realize it's much more than that.
To me, justice means correction...righting what is wrong...a balancing of the scales. I see how this world is. I see how people's lives are. I see how my own life is. In seeing all these things I come to the same conclusion - there is something wrong. Something needs correcting. Something needs to be righted. Something needs to be balanced out. In short, this entire plane of existence DEMANDS justice.
I believe this world is so messed up because of sin. Sin threw this place all out of whack. It unbalanced the scales.
Maybe sin and justice are bitter enemies, but they are not equal. One cannot have sin and justice existing in the same place at the same time; however, the presence of justice destroys what is sinful. As a result, I believe the true presence of justice can only be manifested in someone who is sin-less. The very idea of justice demands this...as if we were wired to know someone or something is greater than us.
There really is something wrong with this world. There is something wrong with us. There is something wrong with me too. I find myself wanting to see the day where the One who is greater than all sin erases all the wrongs and brings things back to the righteous balance - an existence of justice we have yet to experience. Until that day, all I can do is wait.
posted by Trigun at 2:02 PM
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