The Lord God is our salvation, the one who brings up, the one who settles the solitary, brings rest to the weary, takes care of the widow, bring rain to the parched land, restores the broken, and sets the prisoner free. God is in the business of setting right the wrongs. There is famine, there is drought, there are those who are unjustly imprisoned, those who find themselves lacking, without anyone to whom they can turn, captives and those misused by others and the systems in our society, but there is hope. God is in the business of setting things right.
But beware the Psalmist tells us, the unjust will be brought to justice, those who misuse other, to take captives, who ignore the widow and are participants in the breaking and misusing of others, God is also in the business of putting right those who are doing the wrong. Justice will come, recompense and shall we say just desserts. There are those who will find themselves on the wrong end of God's justice. There are those who will suffer when God sets things right, those who ARE the wrong, are participating, perpetuating the wrong, they will be brought to justice
The question is who am I? Am I perpetuating an unjust system? Am I misusing others? Am I apart of the wrong which needs to be set right?
Or am I on God's side. Am I joining God as God works to make things right? Am I lifting up the downtrodden? Am I helping the widow and the orphan? And I attempting to bring justice where there is none?
I can join God or I can not. But the question still stands which side of God's justice will I find myself as God works to make all things right in this worls?
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