God’s love is as deep as His justice. Let’s turn that phrase around: God’s justice is as deep as His love. God is love, and God is justice. You can’t have one without the other. You can’t have up without down. You can’t have hot without cold. You can’t have low without high, and you can’t have love without justice. Don’t believe in dualism? You’re shooting yourself in the foot.

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God is perfect in all His ways, and with that perfection comes the need, the desire and the ability to cleanse, to correct, to maintain and to guide. God’s justice on the earth is coming: are you ready for it?

Perfect justice made the creation of the universe possible. It facilitates the maintenance of the universe. It will enable the fulfullment of the Plan of God, the plan which will both give Him His eternal bride, and bring Him the worship He deserves for all eternity.

An unbeliever once said to me, as if to trap me with his cleverness, “Don’t you think it’s selfish of God to expect people to worship him?” No, I don’t. He is Beauty in all of its potency. He is Power far beyond anything we can imagine. He is Love to the nth degree. He designed DNA, flowers, babies, sky, trees and music. He created me and He sent His own Son for my sake. So no, it isn’t selfish of HIm to expect worship of us. Worship is the fulfillment of perfect love and intimacy, and I for one will be overjoyed to worship Hiim for all of eternity. What could possibly be better?

As we see the world of humanitiy devolving and not evolving, we are unavoidably seeing the unstoppable approach of the judgment of mankind. All those in govenment who have become so corrupt as to have no shame over it are going to be judged. All those who kill and claim a righteous cause are going to be judged. All those who have no regard for the ways of God in the matter of sexuality are going to be judged. And all who are imperfect are going be judged.

Ah, here’s the crux of the matter. Here’s where perfect justice affects every one of us, including you and me. You and I are imperfect. And if you think you are the exception to that rule, you’ve just tarnished yourself further with pride, arrogance and self-deception.

Justice must be satisfied. Wrongdoing cannot be left unpunished, or it festers, spreads and corrupts endlessly, as we now see happening in our governments and in our society as a whole. Wrong must be righted, or love is not love at all. Failure to judge would be allowing and facilitating the eventual corruption of all of creation.

How is an imperfect, mortal, falllible being going to satisfy or repay a perfect, immortal, infinite being who owns all that exists anyway? How are we going to attain to His standards? There is one way, and one way only, through the love and mercy of that same perfection. God will not accept our pride-don’t even try to argue with Him: you will come off very badly. Don’t try to impress Him with your good deeds or your worldly standards of correctness: that wil get you nowhere at all. Your only hope is in His love and mercy. Throughout history that’s been the only way to God’s forgiveness.

To that end He’s provided someone to save us from ourselves-from the corruption which is bringing us all down to the grave. Not “someones”-plural-but one only. Why only one? Isn’t that rather narrow-minded? Yes, our creator is very narrow-minded. How could perfect love and perfect justice not be narrow-minded? And there’s only one good enough to satisfy the Almighty: His own Son. Before the Son was made known, there was no hope outside of a person’s appeal to the mercy of an almighty God. But now, we all have the chance to see our need for a savior, and to accept Him.

As if any further evidence were necessary that the Son of God is God in the flesh, the fact that the perfection of the Son alone is enough to atone for the failings of all of humanity is further evidence. If we’re found by the Father to be in Him, we are acceptable. If we reject that mercy and provision, there is no other hope for us. If you don’t like that plan, you’re on your own.

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