The justice of God (Proverbs 6-7; Psalm 7; Rom 11)

If you have ever been wronged, you will know that justice matters. In Psalm 7, David has been wronged. A man called Cush has falsely accused David of something and it’s ruining David. He feels like he’s being torn apart like the prey of a lion (v2). David does the best thing, he cries out to God and leaves it with God to sort out the injustice. He cries out to God to save him and to be his refuge.

David trusts himself to the one who judges justly. He knows that God has set a day when He will bring judgment (v6), and he longs for that day (v9).

It is good news that God will one day right every wrong, except for the fact that we are all wrongdoers! Yes there are times that we face injustice, but the reality is that all of us are getting better than we deserve every single day. The way we have treated God, means we deserve His wrath. David may not have done what Cush accused him of, but he had certainly disobeyed God in other ways.

There has only ever been one man who was truly innocent, our Lord Jesus Christ, and when he faced the worst injustice ever, he entrusted himself to Him who judges justly (1 Peter 2:23). If we take refuge in him, not only do we get better than we deserve every single day, but we also will enjoy an eternity where every wrong will be made right and there will never be injustice again.

The psalmist writes of his enemies that “he makes a pit…and falls into the whole he has made.” When our Lord Jesus died for us, it was as if Satan had made a pit, he thought he was trapping Jesus. But at the cross, Jesus turned evil in on itself, he took the very worst thing man and Satan could do and used it as the means to bring salvation and to crush the accuser forever.

No wonder Paul ends Romans 11 with the words “oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments…”

If you have been wronged, be encouraged that justice matters to God, and if you have taken refuge in Jesus, you will find a shield, you can cry out to him for justice and know that He will answer on the appointed day. We can, like our saviour, entrust ourselves to Him who judges justly, and we can also, like our saviour, pray that He will have mercy even on those who have wronged us.