Yesterday we were thankful for our God who is infinitely righteous and at the same time wrathful. Stemming from that righteousness and that hatred of all unrighteousness is God’s justice. He cannot be anything other than just!
To love righteousness and hate unrighteousness is what it means to have justice. He is infinitely and perfectly just in His judgment of unrighteousness and is incapable of overpunishing or underpunishing.
The justice of God is a sobering attribute to humanity because His perfect justice demands judgment on all unrighteousness. If He is not just then He is neither righteous nor is He good. This is sobering to us because the Bible teaches us that there is none righteous, no not one.
In light of God’s justice we are all in trouble! But God’s justice is also inseparable from His mercy. God’s mercy does not give His children the justice that they deserve. How can this be? How can He remain just and still show mercy to His children?
Look to the cross. The cross of Jesus is God’s answer to that question. The cross of Jesus is the place where God’s justice and His mercy meet. When Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, the perfect lamb of God, willingly hung on that cross He was bearing in His flesh God’s justice on sinners like you and me. He took on the just punishment we deserve for our sins and offered sinners like you and me forgiveness and mercy in place of judgment.
This was the only solution for God to remain just and provide mercy for His children. R.C. Sproul said it this way: “The saved get mercy and the unsaved get justice. Nobody gets injustice.”
Give thanks today that we have a God who is both infinitely just and incomprehensibly merciful.
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