JUSTICE
WINS!
By Jim
Jordal
“And judgment is turned away
backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and
equity cannot enter….and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was
no judgment….When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord
shall lift up a standard against him.”
Isaiah
59:14-15, 19b
It’s
difficult these days to see anything good in the more or less continuous bad
news from around the globe. On every hand it appears that the world order as we
know it is in various states of disarray and dissolution. If there is good news
we don’t hear much about it because the corporate-controlled media seems to
thrive on continually presenting the worst sides of human behavior.
But there is
another side to the story: God is in control and God will win! People living today
are privileged to be participants in the greatest story ever told concerning an
age-ending onslaught of evil and destruction faced by nothing less than the
fully-manifested creative and redeeming power of Almighty God through the
sacrifice of His Son at Calvary.
The verses
above describe the situation rather well: Judgment and justice stand apart,
separated by the absence of truth and a general lack of equity, or fairness.
God is angry at this and declares that when the enemy comes in like a flood,
the Spirit of God lifts up a standard against him. That standard is God’s word
powered by the Holy Spirit.
So where do
we see any evidence of this Divine standard in operation today? One place to view
it is in the unending revelations of injustice and criminal acts by world
political, economic, military, and civil authorities. God says that “nothing is
hidden that shall not be revealed,” and the continuous disclosures of chicanery
and falsehood give ample support to this truth. Most recently it’s the shabby
treatment accorded many military veterans by the Veteran’s Administration as it
denies or postpones needed treatment, then alters or conceals the evidence.
Another
place to view God’s deliverance is in the recent public awakening to the rank
injustices perpetrated by Wall Street bankers that led directly to the past
recession. None of the miscreants has as yet faced a judge or jury, but their
evil deeds are now widely known. We have taken only small and rather
insignificant actions against their abuses, but as yet can’t marshal enough
political power to rein them in. In the eyes of some observers the problem
remains as big as ever with potential once again to collapse the economy.
Further evidence
is the rise of public anger and the beginnings of mass social movements against
injustice. There are always individuals screaming against injustice, but they
are relatively easy to marginalize and ignore. What we need now is masses of
people demanding reform and refusing to back down before political and economic
power. They can overcome the billions devoted by our overlords to retain their
political power.
And the
virtual impossibility of halting the global onslaught of climate change is
another sign that deliverance draws near. Global warming is just another of the
human problems that may have already reached the “tipping point” beyond which
reversal is impossible. We still operate as if the problem belongs to someone
else. We fail to realize that we participate in some of this evil as we waste
precious resources, madly consume goods and services we don’t need, and
continue to deny the reality of what we all know to be true. As the ravages of
nature continually mount in scope and outcome people begin to realize that we
have gone too far in both our profligate abuse of nature and in our unfailing
confidence that somehow science will provide an escape.
As you make
daily decisions as to what you buy and what politicians you support, remember
that it pays to stay on God’s side, because it’s foreordained that he will win.
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