What does justice look like?
If I left it to observers and commentators I could get confused. Terms used with a clear agenda in mind and only works for them, not in someone else’s situation. It works for you, but not for them. Notions of how people should be treated based on an understanding of people that is not always in tune with how people are.
Problems in the world are easy to identify, but the vision for a world in which those matters are resolved appears fuzzy and incomplete. There’s that problem on the big scale, but it’s also seen on the small scale. Does justice look like I get everything I want because I want it, or I feel I deserve it, or I’m entitled to it or somehow my efforts should make me good enough for it? Is my good the only good that matters? How is it justice that I do my part when others aren’t doing theirs?
The journey does not start then with my view of anything. The journey starts by being consumed by a greater vision of justice from one who can be trusted to reveal such a picture in a way that is righteous, pure and compelling. When things do get fuzzy and cloudy in the fog and confusion of many voices and ideas, this compelling vision can emerge again. Not only can it emerge and be stated, but it can also give guidance to the steps to take towards it, however faltering and unstable those movements can be at times.
This is again why the journey is based on seeing and hearing clearly what is communicated by the heavenly Father in the example of the Son by His Holy Spirit. Seeing and hearing, responding in order. However unorthodox the response may be and however much it may be criticised and mocked by others.
It is clear that the journey to justice begins with that vision …
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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