Real Justice is Not What You Think

Justice isn't a warrior. It’s not a King riding in on a white horse fighting the bad guys and saving the day.
My kids love knights and dragons. I’m not sure how that happened or when it exactly occurred, but they are totally into it. For Halloween, my five-year-old insisted on being a knight, and my two-year-old just had to don a dragon costume. (A little bit fitting for their personalities, actually.) Even at their young ages, they have a sense of justice. Of fighting the bad guy and saving the day. And that’s kind of how I’ve always viewed justice.​

But God’s justice? The real life justice that, if we allow it to, can fuel head knowledge into our heart and out of our hands?
We begin the journey to justice by “being of the same mind that was in Christ Jesus. This mind-set calls us toward an emptying and toward a taking on the form of servants.” (A Many Colored Kingdom)
Justice is the ministry of reconciliation.
Justice is attentiveness to the Holy Spirit and participation in his initiatives. “The kingdom of God is a communal initiative of the Spirit.” (A Many Colored Kingdom)
True justice is when we bring the kingdom of God into a situation. If God is the Just One and we're bringing his values and ideas into a situation, we're bringing justice.
We often think of justice as: I hope that guy gets what he deserves.
But the justice of the cross says: You don't get what you don't deserve. You get freedom and life-everlasting.
Seeking real-life, Kingdom justice is discovering how to extend that freedom and grace to others. How do we throw open the doors to the throne of grace and live it? How do we do it as busy mamas? As professional women? As wives? As daughters of the King?
Listening is profound. Small is big. God's heart is for the hurting, and my heart should beat in sync with His.

His grace ignites a flame in the darkness -- and it's big enough to cover us.