Human ‘justice’ is always tainted, always incomplete. Try as we might, we cannot act in complete justice on our own because even the best judge carries a bias, an agenda in their heart. We are sinful, and we cannot guarantee our ability to make fully correct decisions because of its influence on us. And so we find ourselves crying, ‘Injustice!’ when we see those in authority either abusing their power or themselves being abused by wicked people. And the pendulum swings both ways. We can be very good at getting it wrong sometimes.

Recent events are proof enough of this. People must be held accountable for their individual actions, whether as a criminal or in the name of justice. We are each responsible for our actions and reactions, and we cannot guarantee that they will always be well thought out or well intentioned. And so justice is left wanting sometimes and in other occasions, justice is meted out, and people still do not like it because of their own personal bias. Every human life matters, and every human decision must be honestly weighed out on the scales of God’s justice, not man’s.

Only in the justice of God will we ever truly find satisfaction. Only in the justice of God will ever truly see fairness, goodness, righteousness, and truth honestly applied. Only in the justice of God will the wicked be properly punished and the righteous be honestly upheld. On earth, with sin as our companion, justice will always seem lacking to someone. But in God’s justice, all will be satisfied, all will be fairly weighed and truthfully convinced. God’s justice is perfect, right and good. And until that final judgment, we will continue to find occasion for dissatisfaction in the human alternative.

Our calling to GoLove others in Christ, telling them about the Gospel of truth is a sharing of God’s justice, His grace and His mercy. Where we are so bad at showing grace in the face of perceived injustice, God’s grace shows love, mercy and compassion and yet He still sees His justice done through Christ. Either we receive the due weight of our penalty, or we hide in Christ’s sacrifice, and in the end justice is done, and done perfectly. We need not be concerned that it will be done. Everyone will be judged, again, either according to our sin, or according to our covenant with Christ, and justice will be done. Until that day, we will still experience injustice from the hands of humanity, and until that day, we must trust in God’s perfect timing, justice and truth.

A Cry against Injustice
For the choir director: Do Not Destroy. A Davidic Miktam.

“1 Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones?
Do you judge people fairly?
2 No, you practice injustice in your hearts;
with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

3 The wicked go astray from the womb;
liars err from birth.
4 They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,
5 that does not listen to the sound of the charmers
who skillfully weave spells.

6 God, knock the teeth out of their mouths;
Lord, tear out the young lions fangs.
7 They will vanish like water that flows by;
they will aim their useless arrows.
8 Like a slug that moves along in slime,
like a womans miscarried child,
they will not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns —
whether green or burning —
He will sweep them away.

10 The righteous one will rejoice
when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then people will say,
“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!
There is a God who judges on earth!””