Justice...

I always check out Apple's website for their movie trailers. One in particular caught me off guard, Call + Response. Its about the child sex trade epidemic throughout the world and how certain celebrities are getting more involved. Towards the end of the trailer, Dr. Cornel West said something so profound, it stuck with me throughout last night. He said "Justice is what LOVE looks like in public." This comment alone sparked a conversation between Courtney, my wife, and I in the car. Is he talking about justice for the children being sold for sex? Or is he talking about justice being done to the sick people selling and buying the children? Or is it a blanket statement encompassing both?

I know and understand their are two forms of justice, God's and human. God's justice, whether we or I believe it or not is always fair because God does not waver being just. He created the very concept plus He's all-knowing and all-powerful. He doesn't know how NOT to be fair! Our justice is highly affected by people's emotions and feelings. I can't stand debates between people who say things like "Can someone who rapes and kills still get into heaven?" Honestly, I think they can, but do they deserve it? I don't know and I don't want the resposibility to make that call! It's Gods call. So, our justice is basically desided on a case by case situation. Gods isn't.

I can't stand when churches talk about what I or you or we need to be doing. Theres so much to get done and things to care about and things to change in the world! I know I can't do them all, heck I feel I can't do any of them. I get so bogged down in the details of what I need or should be doing that I DO NOTHING!! But Dr. West's comment gives me hope...

Our church actually does something about justice, every Sunday people serve the homeless of Charlotte a meal. This increadible act done by so many is so amazing, its remarkable how it gets done. This idea of LOVING and serving people we don't know isn't something people just do, Christ and the Holy Spirit are leading us and showing us the way. I know this is something I can do, I can LOVE. God teaches me everyday how to LOVE. I know that God is the remedy to our many problems in the world, and if God is LOVE, then LOVE is the remedy. If justice is what LOVE looks like in public and I know how to LOVE and LOVE is the remedy, then I am part of the remedy which is a part of justice...

It's easy to LOVE people, just chose to...Christ comands us to...but this easy act serves a bigger purpose...a just purpose...