Musing 60

One of the hard things in this world is that sometimes justice does not come when it should. We all feel it in our hearts when a court case (even after digging through the hype of media talking points) seems so clear-cut, yet goes the opposite way we think it should.

I’ve mentioned before that I see this as a reason why we love Robin Hood and revenge stories. We want justice to be done, even if the system fails.

Because we were designed to want justice in this world, we often fall into sin in our pursuit of justice because we cross the fine line between justice and revenge.

And then on top of that, we have a calling to trust God to take vengeance. Which is hard because so often He does not do so on our timeline. We want immediate satisfaction for our pain. Yet God calls us to repay the evil done to us with good. Which does not feel good. But He tells us that such good will become burning coals on those who experience that good.

I’ll be the first to admit that it is easy for me to want vengeance. I LOVE Robin Hood and vengeance stories. It is satisfying to see and hear of just deserts being served to the deserving. But Jesus, despite the fact that He could have justly smote us continually, instead chose to save us while we were enemies.

May we learn to emulate such love.