Universal Truth: Justice

Justice

My God is just. What is justice? Webster dictionary says, "reward or penalty as deserved." Why do we seek it? We want to see something good come out of something evil. Those who seek justice seek truth, and truth is good and produces more good. So those who seek justice are of God, they are acting in his likeness. Because disobedience to God is evil, the consequence is death. A deserving penalty. Before Adam sinned he had life and after he sinned he was promised death and not able to be in the presence of God face to face (Genesis 3:22-23).  History occurred, evil reigned, good was produced but not yet completed. In comes Buddy Christ. We know the story pretty well so I will respectfully shorten it. Jesus is God in human form. Seeing as Gods dwells in us through these other forms, goodness, and love, its not to hard to believe he can become like us. Jesus taught what was good, what was love, and what was justice. This wasn't so we could simply be saved, or forgive and forget, "try to do better next time," an attitude commonly seen in immature christians. Jesus was perfect (1 Peter 1:19) the very embodiment of good. Jesus taught us how we should represent this world and each other. And because he lived an obedient life he was not subject to the law of sin and death. He was determined to see justice done. He did struggle with this decision asking the father in heaven to find another way (Matthew 26:36-46). But because he wanted to be obedient to God more than he wanted to satisfy his own fleshly desires, such as avoidance of pain and suffering, he allowed himself to die on the cross. A great injustice, the death of a truly innocent being. Through this act of injustice something else emerged. Jesus took on the sin of the world through all time so that the law of sin and death would no longer apply and a way to achieve eternal life was made, a gift of love from God. Gifts are representations of love and love is good so eternal life is of his "kind." So out of injustice comes redemption, dictionary.com gives the description "deliverance; rescue." In Christianity it is called salvation, salvation from that which is evil. Rescue from that which is not Gods "kind." So the point here is that through good/obedience we can conquer evil to the point where it does no longer produce evil but good, and not only goodness but joy and so much joy that we have more at the end than we ever had at the beginning. Thats why in James 1:2 we are told to rejoice when we face struggles because we have the ability to conquer all things through good. "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28). Its how oppression becomes freedom, how family trauma is healed, how victims of heinous crimes can produce joy, its how darkness can breed light. Its why I continue to search for truth in Christianity, and seek to quench the misrepresentations of it. Its how I can now see everyone as a child of God, a product of his kind, adopted royalty of a King who is Love, Just, and Good. So if God is for us, all of us, who can be against us?(Romans 8:31)