God Is Just

Readings:
II Chronicles 32
Romans 3:1-6

Focus:
Romans 3:6b: "If God were unjust, how could he judge the world?"

An objection that people sometimes make to Christianity is that God doesn't always seem to treat people the same. Why, they wonder, are some people living in abundance and blessing, and other barely scratching out their lives? Yet both love him equally. And why do good people suffer and die while bad people prosper? God doesn't seem fair, people say. So, those people say, maybe Christianity is wrong.

Yet we only know of the concept of justice because God has built it into us. God himself is the definition of justice.

Somehow, beyond our ability always to understand it, God is being fair. Perhaps beyond the time we are able to know about it, justice will be done for the people that we now see suffering. Perhaps the ins and outs of justice are too complex for us even to grasp them.

But one thing that we can know is that God is just. God is fair. We wouldn't even know that there was such a thing as justice if God hadn't made us such that we wanted it.