For the LORD is a God of justice (Isaiah 30:18). The Justice of God is an attribute of His nature where His perfect righteousness is expressed in His treating humanity perfectly fair and impartial. God’s justice is not something external to Him. He is infinitely righteous within Himself. When God acts justly He is not doing so to conform to some outside standard, He is simply acting like Himself in any given situation. God’s justice is not an secondary aspect of His will, but an unchangeable quality of His very nature. Psalms states, 89:14, Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne. God’s actions are always true and right (Job 34:12).
God brings justice to nations and judges them with exacting punishment (Psalm 67:4). For God cannot remain indifferent to evil or overlook it like so many human politicians and judges can (Habakkuk 1:13). God is perfectly just and works His providential plan in such a way to bring justice on behalf of the poor, the oppressed, and the victims of injustice. Psalms 103:6, The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. God does judge people according to His divine will and timing both in this world and in eternity. Though God’s intervention might seem delayed, believers must remember there is absolutely coming a day in which Christ will judge the world in righteousness (Acts 17:31).
God has imposed the moral law for humans to obey but if they do not obey then He will execute a just judgment and render punishment according to their works (Revelation 20:12). Human beings have an innate sense of right and wrong since the law is written on their hearts (Romans 2:14-15). However, their ability to live in accordance with that law is impossible because of sin. The fact that humans can even conceive of justice and injustice is a reflection of the fact that they are made in God’s image. However, it is also apparent that the farther away from God humans get, the more warped their concept of what is just and unjust will be. There has been injustice on a grand scale in the history of the world, even to this very day because fallen humans act like their father the Devil (John 8:44). Believers on the other hand have a desire and a conscience to pursue justice. We can inform our consciences with the Word of God and develop our spiritual lives so that they line up closer to God’s ways. When this happens we can live justly and judge righteously as God desires (Micah 6:8).
God’s perfect justice demands a penalty of death and hell for all who sin, but God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to earth to pay that penalty for all who believe in His name. God’s divine justice against sin has been totally satisfied with the death and resurrection of Christ and we who repent and trust in the person and work of Christ can be justly pardoned from our sins and live with God forever.
Scripture Reference
Surely, God will not act wickedly, And the Almighty will not pervert justice.
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy;
For You will judge the peoples with uprightness
And guide the nations on the earth.
Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,
And You can not look on wickedness with favor.
Why do You look with favor
On those who deal treacherously?
Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up
Those more righteous than they?
He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.
14 For when Gentiles who do not have 1the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them.
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?
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