“If I have…plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it…” Ps.7.4-5 ESV
It is natural for us to want justice when it is served in our favor. It is a rare moment to want justice served against us. But justice served against us when we are guilty is the right course of action. And, since it is consistent with our new nature in Christ to want what is right we find ourselves torn with a desire to get what we deserve or to be mercifully let off. In the judicial and eternal sense, justice was satisfied by Christ before God the Creator, but in character-building logic, the heavenly Father still hands it out to us. I should think the Father pleased when we humbly submit to justice served against for us for such. We might even say that this kind of justice is for us because its intent is to shape character. It then would be a measure of His grace in us to see this conflict played out when we accept a ticket from a state trooper for speeding. 2/26/2009 Conversation Within ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
