Tuesday, July 5, 2011
"But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (Amos 5:24)
So I hear today was a pretty profound day in the United States Court System, Casey Anthony was found not guilty for supposedly murdering her two year old daughter. This has thrown a lot of people for loops because apparently it was pretty obvious she was guilty (I have no idea, I didn't watch the case). Regardless, it seems as if justice wasn't served. And so I keep hearing things like, "Caylee needs justice!" and things like, "Caylee I'm so sorry that our 'justice' system sucks". And all of this justice talk really got me thinking. And I think the fact of the matter is that Caylee is with God, in perfect union with the Holy Trinity for all eternity. Is that not her justice!? What earthly justice could she possibly need? The answer is absolutely none. I'm sure family and friends would like justice, which is totally understandable, but the idea that Caylee needs justice, I believe is unnecessary.
I personally don't understand why people are so shocked by the apparent injustice of this case. Everyone (including myself) wants justice for this case and there's nothing wrong with that, but do you know what I also want justice for? I want justice for the 30,000 children (that have the same dignity and rights as Caylee) who will die today because of lack of food and water, or from a disease that comes from the food and water they do get. These children will die today throughout the world because we're too busy with our designer clothes and mercedes benz's to even care. I want justice for the 3,000 babies that will be aborted today in the United States alone. That's what I want justice for. My heart goes out to Caylee Anthony, but the fact of the matter is that the media magnifies and sensationalizes one story and they ignore every other story. And the worst part, is we are not blind to all of this. We just choose to ignore it. But when we do choose to ignore all of this, we're not just sleeping through the fire, we're actually fanning the flame. If you want justice for someone, then want justice for everyone. "The Lord loves justice and right and fills the earth with goodness" (Psalm 33:5).
You know, life gets so crazy on most days and we get so caught up in our own stuff. Our own problems, our own sorrows and pains, and our own guilty or not guilty verdicts. It's so easy to get focused in on one thing, but when we do that we lose sight of the big picture. However, at the end of the day, whether the verdict is guilty or not guilty, whatever crazyness may be going on in our lives, God is so much bigger. Why do we always rely on what we think up in our own minds and never go to God to give us an answer for anything? God is so much bigger than anything we can go through. God is so much bigger than every correct or incorrect verdict that we make. God is so much bigger than all the injustice of man in the world put together.
My prayer is that we would become active apostles of justice for everyone and not just for some and that we would also be a people that rely on God for everything we need, because our God is awesome. "O Lord, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth! You have set your majesty above the heavens!" (Psalm 8:2)
When we can live a life of complete justice and one that reflects the greatness and majesty of our God, Heaven and Earth collide.
