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Tuesday... We live with so much injustice but there is a reward if...


Psalm 58:11 (NLT), "Then at last everyone will say, 'There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.'"

Tuesday... We live with so much injustice but there is a reward if...

That seems so true. Of course, it is also dependent upon how we look at it.

So many live with the philosophy that life is not fair. Something happens and they say, "That wasn't fair." We can live as victims.


I watched a tremendous World Series game last night. The Los Angeles Dodgers which is my baseball team played the Toronto Blue Jays. It started at 5:00 pm and ended at 12 midnight when the Dodgers finally won. I'm sure many Canadians are saying today that life is not fair. Yes there were some blown calls by the umpires that maybe changed the outcome of the game. But that was an unbelievable baseball game that we will talk about the rest of our life.

Now there really is so much injustice. David the writer of so many Psalms in the OT of the Bible writes in Psalm 58:1 what so many are saying today, "Justice - do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly?" Of course God knows injustice. His perfect Son was killed on a cross but God used it to change the world.

In the last verse of this Psalm, verse 11 David writes, "Then at last everyone will say, 'There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.'"

Even God through the death of his Son saw injustice differently than we do. It was his plan and he let it happen because God loves us. You see our representatives blew up God's plan but that didn't stop God. He didn't go stand in a corner and feel sorry for himself. He came up with another plan but it had to do with God's Son being killed on a cross but it didn't stop there, he was resurrected three days later.

Verse 10a says, "The godly will rejoice when we see injustice avenged." God knows what he is doing so let's trust him. Yes, "There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth." Yes, there is a God who judges justly here on earth. Let's look to him to take care of the injustices around us. "The godly will rejoice when we see injustice avenged." and there will be a reward if we live for God! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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