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Is God Intrinsically Just? (2)
- Thread starter Reynolds
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I think the next thing is to examine how God is just.
Psalm 22 comes to my mind (probably because of the last discussion).
Throughout the Psalm the Servant is calling upon God's righteousness. And He does so by speaking about the Hebrew fathers who had lived before - how when they found themselves forsaken and suffering they called out on God and He was faithful to deliver them.
How much comfort that should give the believer!
To borrow from Lynn Anderson, we were not promised a rose garden (no idea how I remembered that song).
BUT we are promised that God will keep us. Even through the shadow of death He is with us.
And we know this because God has proven Himself just. His righteousness is displayed in how He delivered the prophets, how He secured Israel, and most of all in the person of Jesus Christ.
Too little is said of God's righteousness and how it applies to us today. More often than not the words "the righteousness of God" is approached academically as a theological doctrine rather than a practical and dependable truth that applies to our daily lives.
Psalm 22 comes to my mind (probably because of the last discussion).
Throughout the Psalm the Servant is calling upon God's righteousness. And He does so by speaking about the Hebrew fathers who had lived before - how when they found themselves forsaken and suffering they called out on God and He was faithful to deliver them.
How much comfort that should give the believer!
To borrow from Lynn Anderson, we were not promised a rose garden (no idea how I remembered that song).
BUT we are promised that God will keep us. Even through the shadow of death He is with us.
And we know this because God has proven Himself just. His righteousness is displayed in how He delivered the prophets, how He secured Israel, and most of all in the person of Jesus Christ.
Too little is said of God's righteousness and how it applies to us today. More often than not the words "the righteousness of God" is approached academically as a theological doctrine rather than a practical and dependable truth that applies to our daily lives.