What is justice, and how do you know when you encounter it? Many people think they know what justice is: it is about getting what is fair. This sounds simple enough, but "fair" is often based on our own perception and ability to empathize.
Exodus 21:23-24 states, "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," While this passage may be familiar to most people, the intent behind it is less so. God was not granting the right to revenge by taking an eye for any eye; instead, He was placing restriction on it. It is our human tendency to overreact and to take more than what was taken from us. When people harm us, we want to hurt them more. this is often why arguments escalate in the manner they do. Our perceptions of our circumstances cloud our judgment of what is really "fair" and "just".
God, however, is perfect. Therefore His judgments are always perfect. Thomas Watson writes, "God's wrath is just. The wicked shall drink a sea of wrath-but not one drop of injustice! God is justified in condemning sinners at the last day. They deserve wrath, and it is no injustice to give them that which they deserve." God is not vengeful. If anything, He often withholds from us what we deserve. But there will come a time when the full weight of God's wrath will be poured out on Earth and when God will no longer hold back. When that time comes, mankind will finally witness what it really deserves, and it will learn just how much God truly detest sin.
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