SUNDAY EDITORIAL

JUSTICE AS A CHRISTIAN

Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement: thou shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall thou judge they neighbour.

What does it mean from a Christian perspective to be fair? It is hard sometimes, the Hebrew people were told to be fair and not to prevert justice.

This though is not my problem, it is easy for me to be fair. What I have a problem with is the slow wheels of justice. It is hard for me to sit back and quitely wait while those affected by wrong doing continue to be misused, while the system takes it's time.

How long I ask myself did Moses go back and worth to Pharaoh before he let the people go? How long was Job's life affected before it was turned around. And like Moses, did Martin Luther King know it would happen after he died?

So now in the battle before me, when I ask will it end? It is easy to say you hand something over to God. But when you have to go before this one and that one repeating the misdeeds of others and then are told to wait. One part ends, but still it is not over, I am told there is another step, another process, and yet another. This effects alot of people, alot of wrong doing. And still we have no answers despite all the evidence I found.

Like Moses I am laughed at and turned away at every corner. If it was only me, yes, I would walk away. What do I gain by standing? In the end I know and believe that those that are affected will get justice. That the wrong doings of people will be brought to the light. That with God the wheels of justice will finally in His time turn to the right.

In the end I know that what I am doing is the right thing. I am standing up for the rights of others. I am standing up for what I believe in.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ephesians 6:10-19 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,...

Being a Christian walking the Christian life is an ongoing battle between the Spirit of God and the temptations of the devil. I believe that the longer the devil has had control of something the stronger we have to stand to defeat him, and I for one will not give up the battle.

As for me and my house we shall stand till the battle is over. Whatever your battle, no matter how big or small, do not give up, do not give in. God in the end will have the victory.

God Bless Indeed
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