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Friday, April 30, 2004 God - Both Merciful and JustThis has always intrigued me, that God has these two attributes (God is merciful and just), and yet being God, he is always perfectly true to both. Now for us poor humans, being both of those things together is a dreadful burden.For instance, in a court of law if we plead guilty, what we desperately need is mercy from the judge - ie. "I deserve to pay the penalty for my guilt, but please give me something that I don't deserve - which is my freedom from that penalty". The court, being a legal instrument, has two options. The judge can exercise justice and, having found us guilty, enforce the just penalty. Or the judge could exercise mercy, and give us what we don't deserve - an exoneration. But in this case, justice wouldn't have been done. In human systems, we can have one (justice) or the other (mercy or grace), but not the two together. The remarkable thing is that God in His wisdom has organised for grace and justice to come together at the cross, so that justice is satisfied (which is particularly important, because God being a just God must punish sin - He can't just wink and say "you're forgiven" - altho we'd be quite happy with that!). Jesus took the penalty, the wrath of God, so that we, the undeserving sinners who are without doubt guilty, walk free (God's grace, we get what we don't deserve). We walk free (even though we're as guilty as all heck - and we as Christians acknowledge it - no argument Lord!) because someone else has paid the penalty to the Judge's satisfaction, on our behalf. We don't even need to feel guilty about it (just very grateful), rather we step out with the spring of freedom from guilt in our step, confident that we stand right (righteous) before Holy God! # posted by geoff @ 11:50 am 0 comments
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