Day 14 โJustice
โ๐ฟ๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐, ๐๐๐โ๐ก๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐!โ ๐ด๐๐๐ 5:24
๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ – ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ โ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐โ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ง โ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ.โ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฆ โ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐จ๐, ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
Justice is a major theme throughout Scripture containing many calls for justice and commands to worship and praise God for His justice. It is the quality of doing what is right and just behaviour accords with what is morally fair.
Godโs justice is โthe essential and infinite attribute which makes his nature and His ways the perfect embodiment of equity and constitutes him the model and the guardian of equity throughout the universeโ (ATS Bible Dictionary, 1859). His rule over the universe is grounded in justice and righteousness. There is never a tie when God is unjust โ it is against His unchanging nature to be anything but perfectly just. It is demonstrated from Creation to the Cross, and from the Cross to Revelation.
The virtue of justice commands that humans act justly according to the Word. This includes acting on behalf of those whose rights are being denied and those who are powerless to defend themselves:
โข โLearn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s causeโ (Isaiah 1:17, ESV).
โข โThus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this placeโ (Jeremiah 22:3, ESV).
โข โDefend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wickedโ (Psalm 82:3โ4).
Prayer: Father, thank You for being perfectly just and that we, as Your precious children, can trust in Your justice to prevail. Teach us to act justly according to Your Word on behalf of those whose rights are denied and those powerless to defend or speak for themselves. Amen.
Love, Pastor Iriza
