Let us not even dare to think that highly of ourselves, to trust either the justices we create nor the ridiculous ideas of love we hold fast to
You cannot find true justice by tailgating a frustratingly angry aggressive driver . . . not while you become them by becoming another angry aggressive driver.
No more than a child does right by shoving back the classmate who had just shoved him.
We all claim “justice” and stand behind it as if it is something truly bestowed to us when it is only an illusion of our own built up, raised and idealistic pursuits lingering no farther than in our own mind’s eye.
It is all a matter of perspective.
It simply comes down to, who is really right, then?
From both perspectives, the one who shoves first is just as right in their own minds as the one reasoning shoving back in there's.
In their own minds, there is the purest of justice where they each stand.
But are we to live by our own merited mind sets and base decisions on our own perspectives in what we deem just . . . or right?
That is God's place alone to call something right or wrong . . . just or unjust.
Adam and Eve fell because they wanted that knowledge of knowing justice from God's eyes . . . only it didn't work that way for them.
Do you see?
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
We can only see things from our perspective. His ways are much higher than ours. So if we don't come in alignment with what He sees, we will be defaulted to the fall of how we see things.
What difference is there then between us and a thief or murderer doing the same . . . thinking and acting upon what they deem is just and right in their own eyes?
And didn’t Jesus say that when we hate in our hearts we commit murder just the same?
So who are we fooling with these delusional fantasies of justice that often drives our aggression and hatred towards our fellow brothers and sisters?
We were created by Love for love towards our creator and one another. In fact, we are commanded by God our creator to have the most important pursuit there can be on this earth . . . to love Him and to love others.
Are we really actually going to buy into the lie that we can change someone’s heart by pointing out their faults?
I admit that I have thought that many times and many many more times I have allowed myself to get sucked into arguments or accusation battles that lead nowhere good simply because underneath it all, I am wanting justice for being wronged.
The part I don't want to admit is this:
I am just as wrong as the one I am accusing.
Sometimes, I just want that person to change and to come to a place of repentance. I am wanting to change how they are seeing something from how they are thinking about it more to how I see it or am thinking about it.
Is that justice?
I reluctantly admit, sometimes it is to me.
Why is it that more often than not, at least in my own life and from examples from so many around me . . . God allows us to learn the hard way more than He stops us in our tracks until we turn to go the way He wants us to?
Why does He not just grab our face and look us square in the eyes and tell us to not go a certain way and to not make that decision?
Is it because He finds it entertaining to watch us stumble about until we figure it all out on our own?
Or might it be that we are just that stubborn?
Could it possibly be that, while we won’t admit it, we truly don’t care if our paths lead us to pain and heart-ache and searing disappointment . . . at least in the moment?
I remember Him telling me gently to not go a certain way or at least warning me before I embark down a certain path . . . and sometimes I listen and head it. Sometimes though, I do not.
I know that when God can get my attention enough to convince me or woo me or direct me a certain way, He does.
And I also know from being an observer from my own paths and choices that He stays rather quiet when I have set my heart and will stubbornly like a hardened statue towards a certain direction and decision.
Again, aligning ourselves with His perspective will enable us to see what He sees, and that happens through relationship.
Don't make it complicated . . . it is no more than what me and a buddy did the other night. We took a walk on some trails and talked for a couple of hours just about life and what we are going through and learning right now.
It's that simple . . . but we just need to do that with God!
He is right there, all the time . . . so we need to stop acting like that isn't true!
We need to stop acknowledging our belief in Him yet we live as though He is some distant father figure we live apart from.
How many arguments between spouses could be saved from becoming emotionally violent and verbally abusive if taken from the place of love rather than fiery justice in the eyes of the beholder?
Let us not dare think that the kind of love I speak of is some sort of hippy-world-peace-nobody-does-anything-wrong type of love, for that is no love at all.
That is just as delusional because it came from mankind . . . it came from the children and not the father. It came from us and not from God.
There are always parts of Him that are reflected in what comes forth from us, but it is only echoes and remnants and pieces . . . never the full and much bigger picture.
Let us not even dare to think that highly of ourselves, to trust either the justices we create nor the ridiculous ideas of love we hold fast to.
I mean true love . . . the kind that is not always fun and typically a sacrifice . . . the kind that matters most, revealing its rewards not in the moment, but later after its wonderful seeds have had time to cultivate into the strongest of foundations in the relationship it builds upon.
I am talking about the love that only comes from God . . . the kind that let’s something go . . . a wrong done against you . . . just chooses to let it go.
The kind of love that knows nothing of the sort that we would consider ourselves to be “victims,” rather, its the kind of love that claims to be a hero for the one who needs their sins covered by it.
The enemy knows that any true and real justice here on this side of heaven . . . walking this fallen earth only comes from love.
And because justice comes from God and is held within God’s mighty hands, it would be wise to speak to Him first before we think to begin unloading our own “justice” upon those we deem in necessity for it.
(scripture used, Isaiah 55:8-9)
