God's justice is something that humanity seems to fear, yet at the same time crave. Every human wants to see justice. When you hear about two police officers being shot in the face by someone, you want justice. Or, when you hear about cases like the one in Florida about the boy being shot while carrying skittles and the police officer being under speculation, you want justice. It does not matter which end you pick, you want justice for someone. This true uncensored and pure justice is what God gives us; so why do we fear it?
We fear it because we know that it is aimed towards us as well as everyone else in the world. Judgment by God is pure and true justice, and if scripture is right and everyone has sinned, then we have sinned and God's justice would have to act on that. He would not make exceptions just because we can say, "well at least I didn't kill anybody or something." We fear that justice of God because we do not want it on us. In fact, we want it to be on everyone but us. Often times, we want to be the one delivering the justice according to what we see, but never wanting to be judged. It is arrogance to say that we want justice but want to get out of it ourselves.
God's justice is often twisted as well. I have seen many images and heard many opinions that are not Biblically true. "God lights people on fire and sends them to Hell for looking at Him wrong," or "God is happily sending people to Hell." These statements and many others have no Biblical ground and are inventions of man out of fear. Many fear Hell and fear being sent there. Who wouldn't? But, just because we fear it does not mean we have to twist the image of God.
God is not sitting on His throne looking for excuses to cast us into Hell. He is not working with the Devil to get us to slip up and burn for all eternity. Imagine this. You have been convicted of the crime of murder. You are walking into the court room and you are seated at the front. When you look up, you see your grandparents sitting in the judge's seat. Instantly, you feel excited. Your grandparents would never be harsh on you. You feel like you are off the hook. You know that they love you and would never send you to jail. After the prosecutor presents his evidence and his case, your grandparents take a moment to talk. Your grandparents find you guilty. How could they do that? They loved you, right? Well, let's be honest. They would only send you to jail if there was no denying what you had done. They would only find you guilty if you were truly guilty. God is the same way. He loves us dearly and does not want to find us all guilty or send us to be punished, but He is just and will find you guilty if you are truly guilty. His love and His justice do not conflict. In fact, it is His love for us that makes His justice pure and unprejudiced. He will not judge you without hearing your case or sentence you to punishment because of your looks. He knows you inside and out and will judge you according to His law and His love.
There is a way out of Hell, of course. Jesus Christ. He satisfied God's law by taking on our sins. The law was satisfied so now mercy and grace can be implemented. It is because God is not the cruel judgmental person in the sky that we have hope. It is because God's love and justice are one that we can escape Hell and go to Heaven. It is because God's love and justice do not contradict one another that Jesus was able to come to Earth and take our sins away. All we have to do is humble ourselves enough to accept that we have sinned and that we need Jesus to help us.
-D
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