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We hear that God is love and God is holy more often than we hear that God is just. And we may readily agree that God sets the standard for love and holiness, but do we understand that He also sets the standard for justice?
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Jesus said that it was not good enough that we love our neighbors, but we must love our enemies as well: “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:43-48). Love is action: doing good for others, giving them justice.
Psalm 89:14"Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you"
Jesus himself practiced and spoke of justice. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied,” he said in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:6). He accused the religious people of his day, the Pharisees, of focusing on religious practice and neglecting justice.
Jesus spoke of justice from another perspective as well: that of people who sought justice through faith and kept asking until they received it. He told his disciples a parable of a widowed woman who pleaded with an unjust judge to grant her justice in her case. Again and again he refused her, and again and again she brought her claim back to him. Finally, he relented just to get her off his docket (and prevent her from attacking him).
“And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly” (Luke 18:7-8)
Seeking Justice through Faith
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