Justice delayed is justice denied. There may be some truth in this view regarding human affairs but this pitiful plea could more easily arise from the human impulse to anger and desire for instant gratification of vengeance rather than a thoughtful desire for justice. Justice is a much more complex subject than can be summed up in a five word slogan.
Who said life was fair? Much of human frustration, perplexities and questions arise because of the injustices we experience and witness on a daily basis.
Justice, which means simply just-ness or fairness, is one of the most prominent attributes of the supreme being described in the Bible. God is absolute and inherently just and fair and is the originator and standard for all the principles of justice, both in this world and in all creation. It's ridiculous to think God relies on an external idea of justice outside of Himself conceived or imagined by men whom He has created.
The Bible declares there will come a day of accounting when all inequities and injustices will be reconciled. Wickedness and injustices will be answered for and dealt with by God in a decisive way that is swift and fearful beyond description. God does not forget the suffering, injustices and evils inflicted on innocent and unsuspecting souls either by the wicked intent of men or the devil himself. According to the Bible, God keeps books and evil in its entirety will be justly dealt with in a perfection of justice unknown to mortal men.
That the day of final judgment and reckoning has not already occurred upon humanity is an exercise of God's mercy for which we should all be forever thankful. Delayed justice is not justice denied as far as God is concerned. Rather it is a demonstration of His goodness and mercy. Beside this, the central doctrine in Christian theology called, "Redemption," proclaims the most serious demands of justice have already been fully satisfied in Christ's death on the cross. "For the Lord has laid on Him the inequities of us all." Isaiah 53:6, God has written down the rules. Those who accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for their sins stand acquitted. Those who do not will, on an appointed day, appear before Him and attempt to justify all their motives, all their words, and all their actions without an advocate and before one who has all the evidence in complete detail before Him and the only one who is perfect in judgment.
-- Pastor Gene Holman of Living Word Fellowship is a member of
Carson Valley Ministers' Association.
