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The grace of God gives us the opportunity to become the bringers of the kingdom, personally and corporately, in the midst of injustice.
The presence of God is Grace in the midst of injustice, and the promise of His judgement.
Everyone is in the same boat, and that should be of comfort and peace to us.
Injustice
The brokenness of the world leaves us defeated and unsatisfied
Leaves us broken and unsatisfied
Social injustice makes us feel like a small drop in a large ocean.
So much to do.
An uphill battle for sure.
Personal injustices can paralyze and alienate us.
Where is God?
The first place we turn when injustice happens is up.
We aren't the first ones to do so...
Job articulated his displeasure with the injustices surrounding his life in the following way.
Can you empathize with Job
If that weren’t enough, the wisest man was not exempt from the experience of injustice.
Solomon thought it was better not to have been born at all then see the brokenness and injustice in the world around him.
Isaiah, the prophet, articulated the brokenness of the world and the injustices we find while pointing us to the only hope we have.
Isaiah indicated that in the midst of the injustices of the world, we have the spirit of God with us.
That doesn’t stop the injustices, but it does give us the way for salvation.
Habakkuk gives us God’s approach and promise in the midst of injustice:
God is still God in the midst of injustice.
We may not get to see vengeance or satisfaction.
We may only get to rest in that God knows what he is going to do and is well aware of how unjust some of the things He sees are.
Where do we go from here?
So God is in control, injustice happens, we may not see a resolution to this.
God is with us in the midst of it.
What does that mean for us?
God could have left us the way that we were in that brokenness of injustice.
He is there to make us more like Him anyway.
To move us from a desire for vengeance to a desire to be an image bearer in the midst of injustice.
To maintain a posture of worship when everything in the world around us screams that things aren’t right, that they are unfair.
So that we can be the image of a Gracious God who really is in control when everything seems like it is not.
That is not just something we can find personally, it is something we can also find corporately.
By the Grace of God we are who we are (individually and corporately) and that Grace is not without effect!!!
Paul indicates that the Grace of God has enabled him to become who he is, in the midst of a lot of injustice.
It doesn’t bring vengeance, or even justice, on this side of heaven.
It enables him to move in the midst of it and seek justice for the benefit of everyone near him.
For Paul, the grace of God was sufficient to help him be an image bearer and justice seeker in the midst of injustice and pain.
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