The Wisdom of Justice

Tradition and Wisdom
Teaching and Learning:
An Ordered Life

Proverbs 28:1-5

The Message

If You Desert God's Law

 ¹ The wicked are edgy with guilt, ready to run off even when no one's after them;
Honest people are relaxed and confident, bold as lions.

 ² When the country is in chaos,
   everybody has a plan to fix it—
But it takes a leader of real understanding
   to straighten things out.

 ³ The wicked who oppress the poor
   are like a hailstorm that beats down the harvest.

 ⁴ If you desert God's law, you're free to embrace depravity;
   if you love God's law, you fight for it tooth and nail.

 ⁵ Justice makes no sense to the evil-minded;
   those who seek God know it inside and out.

For Reflection
What does it mean to embrace justice? Webster tells us that, "The quality of being just [requires] conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness."
So that one who's wisdom does not embrace justice may be one who is ridden with guilt (or at least driven by fear that his untoward acts will be discovered and his plan thwarted.)  Depravity, oppression of the poor occurs when one rejects  an active love for others.

Pray
for those who live under the tyranny of an unjust government.  Pray for those who have to fight daily to be treat fairly.  Pray for those who take advantage of others that they may acquire the God-centered  wisdom of the righteous.