There is a voice deep in your heart that cries out for justice. It’s been there a long time, since the day you thought, “that’s not fair.”
And this voice made me board a bus in the morning dark on January 24 and ride for hours to the heart of our nation’s capital. There I joined 400,000 others to say, “That’s not fair when a baby in her mother’s womb is torn apart.”
You are probably not aware that so many pro-lifers did this. The main media chose to ignore this March for Life, and, while that is not fair,
it is nothing compared to ignoring the tiny persons whose lives are taken unjustly.
As I walked the miles from the Mall to the Supreme Court I passed the Capitol building.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was inside that building, presiding in the Senate Chamber. But he was not there to judge; the Senators were judging. In this not often seen arrangement the innocence or guilt of the President was being decided by the opinions of 100 Senators. And no matter what they decide we will hear for years, “That’s not fair.”
So, who gets to make the final decision of what is fair and just?
If we work at it we can convince ourselves that fairness is for us, not them. History has a long list of “not thems.” Maybe you’ve been on that list. Right now children waiting to be born are on that list and can be killed up to the moment of birth at the choice of their mothers. Fair enough?
Deep down we long for a justice that is not decided by 100 senators or the mood of a mother. We want justice that cannot be moved. Can we find reason to hope for that?
When Jesus walked with humanity he was accused of many wrongs and executed for those accusations. Yet he claimed to have authority from God to judge rightly saying, “I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
The only rock-solid justice we can hope for has to come from the Creator of all who placed the voice of justice, the moral law, in each human heart. And when God raised Jesus from the dead he affirmed his power and intent to bring final justice to all.
Everyone who wants true justice will receive it, and with such justice comes mercy. Scripture says, “He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.”
But you have to want the just Judge.
The prophet Isaiah wrote, “For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!”
We don’t just hope; we hope in the One who is Just, a just hope.
scriptures quoted: John 8:25; Colossians 2:13-14; Isaiah 30:18
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