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We live in a world that clamors for justice. This is largely due to the mentality that we are all victims and in some form or other we are due something to make up for the wrong done to us. The greater issue is that while we hear much of justice in our day, the question remains—whose justice? The human measuring stick of right and wrong, while to some degree has a rather ubiquitous rule, is not absolute. Even injustice that we profess to abhor is rampant and little is done to stop it. Human justice then, in and of itself, while a noble pursuit, cannot be the end goal. We see it completely played out in religion. That is just what religion is—man’s attempt to establish our own justice and pursue that to the fullest extent.
The apostle Paul identified this moralizing in Romans 10. The Jews, while a zealous, serious-minded bunch, were completely ignorant of God’s justice. His rule. His measure. Regardless of how high a standard we may establish, it falls woefully short of God’s perfect holiness and justice. All the exterior attempts to reach God—church membership, religious activity, offerings of time or money, baptism, catechism, and prayer—pale in comparison to the establishment of God’s justice towards man in the person and work of Jesus Christ. He is justice. A perfect justice. Far superseding the highest court or the most dedicated activism because He is the perfect law. He is the fulfillment and the embodiment of justice. And He came and established His justice in His flesh with man in his birth, life, death, and victorious resurrection.
We will long be surrounded by injustice because we live in a fallen world. The more that we attempt to establish our own justice, the more miserably we will fail, and openly shows the great need for His justice. Jesus will shortly return and rule and reign in perfect justice. Until then, we must show forth His justice, holiness, and perfection to a world that so desperately attempts to establish and fulfill its own.