The Justice of God

A while back I was having a discussion with some friends of mine about justice. It was a very interesting dialogue in that we all have different views on what that term looks like in action. In our discussion on justice, I brought up the notion that humanitarianism is a form of justice. Unfortunately the term has a certain connotation about what it actually means. Many people think that justice is doing some action against someone/something that has wronged you in equal proportion to what was done to you. This cannot be true justice because we do not have a measurement to measure such actions (if anyone has found that please let me know).

Can we bring true justice to the world? I believe that we can, simply because we are created in the image of our just Creator, therefore I believe that deep down we have a notion of what justice is. If we (Christians that is) are in submission to the Lord of the entire creation, living in the Kingdom of God in the present (please do not think that I'm talking heaven in the sense that people use the term). What about people who do not follow this King, can they still do justice? The simple answer is yes, whether they know that they are doing it or not. Many companies that are not "Christian" are bringing justice to the world, for example Bono and his campaign to fight aids in Africa is doing justice, bringing heaven to earth as Jesus prayed.

This brings me to what my view of what justice is and how we can do true justice here and now in the present. In my opinion, justice is a way to bring the creation to right back to it's original purpose. Christianity is charged, in particular, to do and seek justice, together, regardless of the denomination. Every person that lives in the Kingdom of God must work to do this. What does this look like? It starts with the mind set that Jesus is truly risen, that the final tyrant, death, has been dealt with. We live in a revolutionary way, in a resurrection way, in which what we do today is important for the future. If we believe that nothing goes away, but is simply reenergized if you will, then we should work towards that today, through loving our neighbor as ourselves, and if we do that everything will fall into place.

May you live in pursuit of justice and live in the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.