If God is Love, I think Jesus is Justice
Why we cannot re-define Justice to our own understanding (and must be aware of falling prey to our relativity-obsessed society) and the crucial significance of our knowledge of Christ shaping what we do, never the other way around.
“An Idol is whatever you look at and say, in your heart of hearts, – ‘ If I have that, then I’ll feel my life has meaning, then I’ll know I have value, then I’ll feel significant and secure.” Tim Keller
I wonder if soon I am headed to a point where I would
ditch Jesus for “justice”. “Justice” in quotes because, really what is justice
without Jesus? I am so angered by the sex industry: Apathy of the church in
taking a stand and the fact that there are millions of girls around the world
that are servicing (the nice way to put it) 20 men a night. Every night. They
have no love, no home and seemingly no hope. What do I do as I feel this pain so
deeply? It makes the most sense to just go out and end it at any cost! I’m
tempted to ignore prayer and searching the scriptures because of my urgency to
end the problem! At any cost. But I praise You that I’m so intertwined, Your
love is so written on my heart that truly, somehow I know there is no justice
without Jesus. Justice. True justice. It’s what only God can bring. It is
justice that causes freedom for all involved, not just the ones I deem to be
oppressed.
Oh how He loves us. That “WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS
(hostile, evil, haters of God, haters of good, desirous of death) CHRIST DIED
FOR US.” Romans 5:8. The Lord in His divine love that is solely of Him, saves
the trafficker and the trafficked in the exact same way. He saves them from the
oppression of sin and death. What death to the soul, spirit, mind, heart and
body have the traffickers experienced? They have not lived. They have not
experienced God or at least they have not let themselves experience hope of His
love. But, Oh How He loves us. Seeing the plight of each man without comparing
one to another, without counting his own sin that he did to others and to God
against him, but saves him, cradles him, rescues him, redeems him, changes him,
washes him clean and carries him home all the same. What weeping in joy and
praise there will be from the trafficker who comes to know love that covers
all- “Amazing grace how sweet the
sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was
blind, but now I see.”*
Praise Our Great God. I still pray that He saves the
girls tortured and living in death in sex slavery, and most of me wishes evil
upon the oppressors. But by Christ He has opened my eyes so I can see my sin in
His light.
Lord, forgive me. Heal my heart. May I never choose “justice”
over you, because I don’t believe your goodness, your power, your proactivity
in redeeming the world. For you are much more active than me, You are the only
one who can stop evil and redeem what was broken and dead. You go farther than
me in redeeming the oppressor as well as the oppressed. My heart is so much
smaller than yours. “For your thoughts are not my thoughts, neither are My ways
you ways,” declares the LORD, “For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so are My ways above your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts.” Isaiah
55:8-9
This is one tiny fraction of what the LORD is doing in
this world to further His kingdom and His love. He is gracious to deal with each
of us as we need. There is much more to the story God is writing on my heart as
well. Thanks for reading.
For more information on sex trafficking, visit
exoduscry.com
* (John Newton wrote
these words to Amazing Grace-after he gave his life to Christ and left his job
as a slave-ship captain)
Thank you, Laura, for opening our eyes to God's image reflection in your precious heart.
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