From Experience = Living And Coping With Injustice And Hurt (First Part) – Guidelines – (The Retribution Of God – Part 6 In The Series) Series

FROM EXPERIENCE = LIVING AND COPING WITH INJUSTICE AND HURT (FIRST PART) – GUIDELINES – (THE RETRIBUTION OF GOD – PART 6 IN THE SERIES)

INTRODUCTION FOR SOME MEASURES TO LIVE WITH INJUSTICE

We have looked at the subject of retribution from several perspectives. We considered a number of examples and traced how the retribution of God was implemented. We looked at the certainty of it and finished with the Christian’s approach to it. Underlying much of the suffering of Christian experience is injustice, a word which encompasses a broad set of practices but I confine it to the unfair, unjustified, deliberate action by another party against the child of God or people of God.

This world is very unfair, not just to Christians but to non-Christians who wish to maintain some form of decency in morality. Our age is hardening so fast against any form of goodness, and this is seen in the WOKE decisions being made, the legislating of gross immorality such as so called “homosexual marriage” that flies in the face of the first marriage instituted by God and confirmed by the Lord Himself – {{Matthew 19:4-6 He answered and said, “Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them MALE AND FEMALE, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become ONE FLESH?’ Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”}}

Let me cite one recent example of this unfairness. In the current (October 2023) Islamic protests in Sydney, the large hateful, satanic gathering of Hamas supporters were screaming, “Gas the Jews. Gas the Jews,” and other evil obscenities I can not repeat. The police just stood there and did nothing; the New South Wales Government did not want to know about it. However one man in the area was arrested for holding the flag of Israel. Is this an isolated incident? No it is not. We are in the last days of the Church age before the Rapture and the Lord said, {{2Timothy 3:1-2 “Realise this, that in the last days DIFFICULT TIMES WILL COME, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, etc.”}} The expression means “days of hardship.”

Should a Christian expect true justice? No. We can no longer expect it in a world that is fast embracing evil and has turned its back on God. We must be sensible and realise we are living in chaotic times when all the traditional moral values are being shredded. The bible is our firm foundation and we must stand on it no matter what the prevailing ethos might be. In the State of Victoria in Australia you can not use the term “boys and girls” in school and a pregnant woman has to be called “a birthing parent”. I know these abnormalities are not confined to Australia. They are alive and well also in the USA and a lot of Europe. Humanity is fast tracking towards the precipice because it has abandoned God and according to Romans 1, it is said three times, “God gave them over,” meaning God said, “Go your own way,” and that way is the way of darkness and stupidity, of humanism and depravity.

In this last section I would like to propose some practical ways a Christian can handle the difficult matter of injustice.

Injustice is a major source of frustration and the desire for justification, if not properly controlled, can lead to bitterness, negativity, and self-revenge. This world is full of injustices and is it any wonder? Through movies, books, magazines, time-wasting soapies on television and contemporary music, all of which have degenerated drastically in the last two generations, (and social media in recent times), there is an insidious creeping disease. The emphasis is now so strongly on one’s personal rights at the expense of all others’ rights, and the humanism behind it, whether consciously or unconsciously, has fashioned our generation’s thinking and permeated an unchristian set of values right through society. This includes revenge, hate, and infidelity and lying.

Avenging oneself or “doing the other in before he does you in,” is what motivates so many. “Do others before they do you,” is the way one operator once described it to me. The blatant selfishness on the roads especially from the “twenties drivers” is all part of the same cancer. Retribution (worldly style) is often practised by the average citizen of the world and pursued earnestly when there is little chance of being caught. I often wonder if that is the norm for politics and especially the Public Service in Australia (quite corrupt) in its operations and internal promotion. (Civil servants in Britain. Not sure of the US term for that). That though is not the way for the Christian. Untrue, falsify, revenge, distort, slander, injustice – these are not the ways for Christians.