DEALING WITH INJUSTICE

 

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

 

DEALING WITH INJUSTICE

Eccl 10:4-7

4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; [do not resist irrationally] for yielding pacifies great offences.

5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceeds from the ruler:

6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

 

          Solomon observed the chaos that will naturally occur when unqualified leaders are in authority. Kind follows kind, and a leader who is full of folly will attract all manner of weirdness and damage to himself. Servants are given horses and princes are forced to walk.

 

          Our Supreme Court has but one function and that is to assure that laws created in the echoing halls are not contrary to the original intent of our founding documents. They are ever adjured to bring those laws in line or to eliminate them. It is unreasonable to expect anything but outrage from those who would rewrite an unalienable right.

 

          There is, of course, a higher court before which we all must stand – even those who disavow this court. They shall stand with their placards, hastily scrawled on empty Amazon boxes with left over lipstick – but they will stand. They will plead their cause, but they will not be judged by the volume of their voice but by truth.

 

          Justice cannot be transformed by our angry response to it, for that would produce injustice. Whenever injustice is resisted with reason and truth, it is unreasonable to expect anything but rage which is meant to restore the injustice. Truth cannot become a lie by burning its house down!

 

Matt 24:12-14

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

 

Lord, your next coming seems to approach with blinding speed. Let us be ready. AMEN