We all face it. We all wish it wasn't so. But, sooner or later we will all have to deal with it. Injustice! The world is full of those who suffer under injustice...why must it be so? This is the age-old question we would all like to have answered. Sin is what brought unfairness. It was never God's plan that His people would have to deal with the atrocities that we now hear about in the news, deal with in our families or that we hear about half way across the world. Rape, child abuse, drugs, alcohol, gossip, people vying for power and control...it is all sin; all born out of our rebellion to God, wanting to do it our own way. I guess we should be happy now, this is what is called our own way; each man doing what he thinks is right apart from God.
We have been dealing with a small measure of injustice in our world through my husband's work. He had the rug pulled out from under him this past week with someone blasting him with profanities for no apparent reason. He was left reeling and wondering what that was all about. Many people tried to tell him it had nothing to do with him, but the question seems to lurk under the surface; "What did I do wrong?" He is a lead landscaper and now cannot tell what's what, seeming confusion and mayhem that overtook the order and beauty that he was creating. Now he stands and watches as others take the credit and ruin what he has created. He is angry. He is frustrated. He is hopeless; at the mercy of those who are more powerful over him in this hierarchy of control.
This is just a small example of injustice (although big to us at the moment) and yet this takes place all over the globe with no apparent solution to the evil that permeates every darkened corner.
There is hope! There is one who will prevail over evil in due time; all in due time...in the meantime, we will choose to trust in the one who will exact justice on the world, not yet, but in due time...
