Justice Without the Lord is like Sand in An Hour-Glass
Her name was Mary Rowlandson. One evening in February 1675, her house was attacked by Indians. They butchered the occupants her house, set it afire, and took her and a baby captive for nearly 3 months. In 1682, she wrote of that treacherous and horrifying night. As vividly as she described it, there are no words in one’s vocabulary that can adequately describe the terrifying night. As she recounts it all, on her trembling lips (then on sheets of paper) are the words of comfort from the Lord.
How was the Lord helping her in this? Not a one of us is in position to know how the Lord helped or did not help, but we can read of her unfailing faith through an ordeal that, I suspect, no female today could endure. She didn’t count on her life lasting very long in captivity, but she did find comfort in Him who is beyond all human understanding. She knew, in spite of all the evil done, He who created the material Universe will make things right in the end.
She was one of those who prevailed in this country’s founding. Without faith like what she had, complete trust in the Almighty, our country’s moral underpinnings would be like sand.
Is there any justice in the world? If there is no God, there is no justice. As people are living without God, the society in which many reside are living without justice (look at our metropolitan cities). How do people live without justice? They don’t. Sometimes people take justice into their own hands, only to find it reciprocated against them by another who thinks they are rendering justice against you as the perpetrator.
The foundations of a community must be built on a solid rock. There is nothing from man that is a foundation greater than sand. When the foundation that belongs to the Lord is destroyed, or in the process of being destroyed, chaos and destruction are not far behind.
“If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3 ASV)
Since there are some in our political class (at all levels) who live on a foundation of sand, what do you think will be passed legislatively? “Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14:34 ASV)
Sand in an hour-glass.
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