If you have ever experienced injustice, you know the feelings that take hold when it happens. Maybe you were wrongly accused of something, stolen from, or attacked because of the color of skin. Injustice can lead you to the brink of losing it. Frustrated and angry, embarrassed and without recourse, you stare helplessly into the face of the wrong you just experienced.
Should we as human beings and especially as followers of Christ be concerned about injustice? I believe we should, actually we are commanded to! The Bible contains an abundance of evidence that God is a God of justice. At least six of the Ten Commandments deal directly or indirectly with justice issues. God lets us know in no uncertain terms that he hates injustice and commands us in the words of the prophet Micah “to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” Often we seem to just love justice as an abstract idea until we ourselves experience injustice.
Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous words regarding the murderous injustice perpetrated by the Nazi regime of Germany can be a stark reminder of what happens when we are not doing what is just:
“First, they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then, they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
God it a just God! He loves justice and hates injustice, so let us speak up and do something about injustice no matter where we encounter it. Whether it is speaking up for the Unborn, young girls who are promised the good life but enslaved by sex-traffickers, or for our neighbors, who might have the boundary lines of their property illegitimately moved. Let’s do Justice.
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