A reading in church yesterday is worth a sermon, or today at least a Minute. “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” (Amos 5:24).
First question: whose justice? In today’s America the court returns a verdict but supporters of the losing side take to the streets. They want their version of justice. Appeals sometimes overturn a verdict, but earthly justice can err. Think of people sitting on death row for murder but decades later DNA proves their innocence. Are we slipping toward Habakkuk 1:4, “The law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth”?
Whose justice? In Amos it is God’s, Who threatens to come and let our self-willed world have it. “Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light, as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness at all?” (Amos 5:18-20) Two more questions: Do you believe the end is coming? Are you living in the fear of God?
The Day will come; Christ is the appointed Judge…and to those who await Him, Savior, for from His cross flows the justice God demands. Living now in reverent fear and love, justice is to flow through us to others. “The vision awaits its appointed time… wait for it” (Habakkuk 2:3). Final question, do you believe the end is only one heart beat away? “Til he returns or calls me home, here in the hope of Christ I stand” (“In Christ Alone,” Natalie Grant).
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