What about you - are you longing for justice to be done in your life? Have someone committed an injustice against you or someone you love and does it seem like they are constantly getting away with it? Like Asaph who wrote Psalm 73 one could doubt whether God is good if evil constantly gets off the hook. It might even be the reason you resist Christianity in the first place.
In Psalm 73 God tells Asaph to come and meet with Him and allow God to show him the end of those that are not safely hidden through faith in Christ. God gives him this message to strengthen him and to live in an unjust world with the certain knowledge that the scales will be finally and eternally be balanced one day.
Bible
When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.
Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin. How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!
As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies. Psalm 73-16-20
Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, we deserve to be destroyed... our constant lack of love for you and our neighbour is nothing less than sin against you. In many ways we are not any different from the killers and murderers and slanderers all over the world except for this - in your great mercy you showed us our sinfulness and gave us the gift of forgiveness. We praise and thank you that you died the death we deserved to give us the life we didn't. Please strengthen our hearts as we see injustice in the world - knowing that you are a just God that gives mercy and forgiveness to anyone that asks. Amen
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