If we're comfortable, we love to think of God as loving and merciful, and we easily turn our noses at the thought of God's judgment. But if you're being oppressed, or if you're a victim, how much despair does it bring on if you don't have the idea of a just God to turn to? Then you have to take judgment into your own hands, if God's not going to do it. But if we think of God as just, and needing satisfaction to set things right, then that frees us to love, because we trust that God will make things right. We may not always like the way God does this, but at least we can see logic to it, rather than just forgetting about things that have been done to us and focusing only on love. When we truly set justice into God's hands, then we're free not to take it up ourselves, because we trust that the things that have been done to us matters -- God cares about them, and God will ensure a price is paid, even if God has to pay it through the life of Jesus Christ, God's own son.
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