“No Justice, No Peace”

Justice is all about “rightness.”  One who is just, lives rightly and makes right decisions.  Justice involves the law, a standard, a moral code of right and wrong.  We often call it the justice system, because there’s a set of rules and regulations which govern its proper execution.  Falsely, people equate “fairness” with “justice.”  Fairness implies equality like justice, but fairness leaves itself open for disagreement.  What you thought was fair, I didn’t.  Justice is rightness.  Justice is about making things right, equally, for all people.  Without justice, it is true, there is no peace!  And though some may disagree with what’s right, God has established the moral laws of right and wrong.  In fact, Moses would say that their set in stone, literally.

That’s the real irony isn’t it?  When people in our culture feel, believe, or know there’s been an injustice, the cry is always the same:  “No Justice, No Peace.”  If there’s no justice, then let’s make sure there’s no peace, through riots, protests, civil disobedience and even outright crime.  We’ve seen it all too often in recent days.  One injustice incites another injustice.  How does one cry out for justice and then act unjustly to try and bring about justice?  What is right or just in that?

The solution for mankind and society:  we must first make peace “with” God, and His law, if we ever hope to experience the peace “of” God in our lives, and in community with one another.   We overcome injustice, by doing what’s just.  By doing what’s right, or better yet, by being made right by God through Jesus Christ, we overcome the evils of our own broken lives, our misguided culture, and a lost world! 

Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.   Romans 5:1 (NLT)

Don't let evil get the best of you, but conquer evil by doing good.  Romans 12:21 (NLT)