The True Injustice

There's a lot going on in our world. When I heard the prosecutor announce that there was no probable cause for the indictment of an officer who shot an unarmed man 6 times, a lot of emotions circled me.

I often have a lot to say about racism in America, the denial that it still exists, and the injustice often served to people of color across this country, and the world.

However, I asked the Lord what I should do with my frustrations. He said, of course, to bring them to Him. When I did, here is what I discovered.

A majority of us believe that justice was not served today. I didn't see all the evidence up close, and I don't know that I could be trusted to make a non-biased opinion if I did. But still, even if one of those shots was justified, surely the other 5 were not.

What struck me is that maybe Mike Brown didn't know Jesus. I don't know him at all, but what if he didn't? What if he never heard the true gospel? What if people petted him his whole life and fooled him into thinking he had at least 10 more years to "get his life right" and come to Jesus? That is the real injustice.

The real injustice is that WE are dying everyday. By we, I mean US, THIS GENERATION! You, me, our peers, friends, cousins, classmates. Mike was 18 years old when he was gunned down. Cancer is the second leading cause of death for children. We are dying everyday! If not at the hand of the white supremacist it's at the hand of an extra line of cocaine or even at the end of the barrel of our own gun.

Yet and still we don't give two crumbs at the bottom of a cracker box about where we will spend eternity. We holler YOLO and keep on living a life of HELL procrastinating repentance when we have no idea if we will make it to the next day, the next week, the next year. Then we stand in the street and riot about a brother "gone too soon." This should be a wake up call that we ain't but that far from being "gone too soon" ourselves! Instead of acting a fool we should be running to the cross that our grandmothers sang about!!!

Holiness is urgent. Salvation is current. And repentance can no longer be delayed.

It is time out for trying to be cute and politically correct with the gospel. Preach the truth in and out of season. When it's popular and when it's rejected. When it's easy and when it's difficult. When you feel like it, and my God, even when you do not! They say friends don't let friends die without hearing the gospel!

The Lord also spoke to me this: DO NOT BE DECEIVED!!! Do you NOT see the diversion of the devil?! He is out to divert our attention from the real problem. Which is sin. The problem with the justice system is not racism, it's that it's ran by humans! People who are sinful at the core like me and you but probably refuse to believe it. The only perfect justice is that of Jesus Christ.

We are all that officer. We committed horrible crime; but not against anyone here on earth. We committed horrible crime against the One, True Living God. We have all sinned against a holy God. And we were indicted, arraigned, and convicted. Sentenced to eternal separation from the very God we sinned against.

And justice was served.

But not on us. 

No. We did not receive our just reward. We did not get what we DESERVED even though we so quickly demand the blood of a policeman or of anyone who we think did us wrong! We want him and our father who left us and our family member who molested us and our coworker who gets on our everlasting nerves ALL to PAY!!! But WE WALK FREE!!!

Because God sought justice through the blood of His very own Son rather than commit us all to an eternity in hell. You are quick to yell and scream and shout "Thank You Jesus! Your blood has set me free!" and in the same breath throw another man no worse than you to the wolves.

We are just as full of hatred as any racist when we refuse to remember that Jesus died for their sins too! We are not the only ones who get to walk free!

So, please, be compassionate and forgiving, because, even though it's hard and it seems wrong, God does that for us every single day.

And please, do not delay. Be quick to repent and return to God because you never know when you will meet your gunman.