A JUST GOD

What does it mean that God is a Just God?

I don’t know about you, but there are days when this attribute of God causes me some consternation. If God is truly JUST, don’t I deserve punishment and death? On any given day when I fail Him, I often wonder why He doesn’t struck me with lightening and  take me out of this world.

Why doesn’t He? Because along with His Justice, He offers mercy and grace to His children. Praise God for the promise of 1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and JUST and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

Isaiah wrote “Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!” (Isaiah 30:18)

Isn’t that good news?

Yes, God is Just, but He is also gracious and full of mercy.

Robert Hampshire in an article at Christianity.com defines JUST this way …

“… for God to be just means that he is consistent, virtuous, innocent, and right. And since his justness is part of his immutable nature (meaning it cannot change), then he is always right and just in whatever he does.”

“In fact, the very justness of God (and his law) illuminates his love, grace, and mercy in a way that nothing else could because not only is God just, but he is our justifier — meaning he alone has the power and ability to make us righteous before him.”

Read the full article here: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/god/what-does-it-mean-that-god-is-just.html.

Won’t you join me this week as we praise Him as our JUST GOD?

Sunday Supplication

God, I praise You this week as the Just God who is always right in whatever You do. I thank you that in Your justice, You offer mercy and grace. Teach me through your word this week. AMEN! SO BE IT!

Monday Manna

He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

Deuteronomy 32:4

Tuesday Treasure

“For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.”

Isaiah 61:8

Wednesday Wisdom

So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled. But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.

Isaiah 5:15-16

Thursday Truth

All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.

2 Thessalonians 1:5-7

Friday Fact

“Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.”

Isaiah 51:4-6

Saturday Song