GOD'S CALL FOR JUSTICE

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

“Moreover, say to the royal house of Judah, ‘Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says to you, house of David:’”

“‘Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed,
or My wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done—burn with no one to quench it.”

Jeremiah 21:11-12

This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

We are a people who crave justice.

If you don’t believe it, let something happen that is unfair and watch the almost immediate reaction and demand for equity and impartiality.

Take something like sports for example, one of my favorite passions (after the Lord that is). If you are watching a game and a player commits an obvious infraction or gets called for a foul when it was clear that an opponent simply tried to draw the decision of the official by faking, and fans will get up in arms in a moment’s notice, crying out about the injustice that has befallen their favorite team or player. We simply carry a deep expectation that the things of life will play out fairly.

We could look at our court systems as another example where people become fixated with a desire for perfect justice to be administered. If a person is guilty and the evidence speaks to such, then a person is expected to be convicted.

But that’s not always what happens, right?

In fact, there have been many instances where mere technicalities or mistakes by prosecutors have led to acquittals which many found to be unbelievable given the propensity of proof that pointed toward guilt. These cases begin to erode the public’s trust that justice will really be served by the court systems that hold it as their charter.

So the people of the world anticipate justice will happen but as we see in the scriptures, God just doesn’t expect it, He commands and demands it such as in our verses from Jeremiah, Chapter 21 today. Look again at these words:

“Moreover, say to the royal house of Judah, ‘Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says to you, house of David:’”

“‘Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed, or My wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done—burn with no one to quench it.”  Jeremiah 21:11-12

Note here that there is no questioning what God is telling the royal house of Judah to do. They were to administer justice daily, rescuing people from the hand of their oppressors who obviously represent those considered unjust and unfair in this passage. This went for decisions from the king on down.

As long as justice was served, those doling out justice had nothing to worry about as they would remain in God’s good favor. But if injustice was done, the outcome would be frightfully different for God’s wrath would break out against those who would choose evil over disobedience, the offenders burned by an unquenchable fire.

Friends, the Lord still directs justice to be done. Nothing has changed since the days of Jeremiah and we would be well served to remain committed to pleasing Him with the way we execute judgments in our courts. For the scriptures tell us that God requires this:

That we act justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God with every day that He blessed us with (Micah 6:8).

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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