Week 11 Psalm 75
Asaph quotes the Lord as saying: at the time I planned, I will bring justice against the wicked.
So that answers two questions:
Q1: will the Lord bring justice against evil-doing people? A: yes.
Q2: when will he bring justice? A: at some point in time (unknown to me).
I notice that there’s a correspondence – an overlap – between the Lord’s concern for justice and my concern for justice. But not much overlap when it comes to timing.
I live in a material dimension that includes time. As far as I know the Lord doesn’t live in a material world and he isn’t influenced by the passing of time. Justice will definitely happen…but not on my schedule.
Which is too bad. I just checked the news and sure enough a country 8000 kilometres east of Medicine Hat is still bashing the living daylights out of its neighbouring country. It’s a bad situation and since I figure something should be done it’s fortunate that the Lord says he’ll enact justice against destructive villainy. But he doesn’t say exactly when.
It matters to me that justice gets done but it also matters quite-a-bit that it gets done sooner rather than later.
But for now I guess I have to be satisfied that wrongs will inexorably be brought to trial. But the Lord’s operating on his own schedule and it doesn’t look like my hurry-up time’s-a-wastin’ clock is much of a factor.
Note: quote from Psalm 75:2 (NLT)