Aug 11, 2019
At the beginning, God made humans in His image and put in
the human soul a moral compass (Gen. 1:27). This drives the
human
desire to want fairness or need justice that doesn’t exist in the
insect
or animal world. When wrong has been done, humans naturally
want
the offender punished or corrected (Prov. 18:5; 21:15). But when
we,
those we esteem, or those we’re afraid of are the offenders,
partiality
can happen which invites disaster (Gen. 34:1-31; 2 Sam.
13:10-29).
A corruption of justice erodes a society and offends God (2
Chron.
19:7; Prov. 21:3; 24:24, 25; 25:26). While societies have
imperfect
systems with imperfect judges, perfect justice can happen even if
it’s
carried out imperfectly. Justice delayed is not necessarily
justice
denied—justice is sometimes later (Rom. 12:17-20; 2 Thess.
1:5-10).