Isaiah 2 tells us the story of all nations streaming towards the mountain of the Lord.
We hear that all peoples are coming to hear and learn from the Lord. That He will be the judge and arbitrator and all nations will seek His justice…
What is Justice in the biblical sense? Have you ever stopped to think about that? I mean really, according to the Bible what do you deserve? Ok sure there is that Jesus guy who came and paid the price for all people… But let’s just take Him out of the equation for a moment. Without Jesus what do you deserve? What is justice for you according to the Bible?
We are all unholy and unable to be with God, therefore the justice we would receive in the biblical sense would be eternal separation from God. We would not want to go and learn from the Lord, we would not be streaming to Him seeking the living water that He gives, we would be running away because we know what we deserve, what is just for us. Isaiah knew this all to well a little later on in chapter 6 when he finds himself in God’s temple, and Isaiah knows he is unworthy to be there…
We would not stream to God to arbitrate our issues, or to be judge over us if we wanted true justice for ourselves. But is that what we want? We know we are taken care of by that Jesus fellow, but all those other sinners out there need to know God’s wrath because they are obviously a worse sinner than I am. They need to have divine wrath brought down on them… But remember watch what you ask for because you just might get it, what you are asking for about someone else, they just might be asking for you.
The truth of the matter is none of us deserve to stand in the temple of the Lord, none of us will ever get to be with God eternally on our own, and God’s justice is to let us be there anyhow, because of what He did.
So today and always let us walk in the light of the Lord, and seek His justice, which is grace and mercy that every should come to be in a relationship with Him. He is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love for all His creation. That includes you and your neighbor who is the worst sinner of all, which is what your neighbor says about you…
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