Justice Personified

We cannot understand the fullness of Grace without first knowing Justice. Picture Justice as the balance that holds the Law. When the measure of a man's heart is placed in the other side, the weight of sin nearly unhinges fair Justice. There is absolutely nothing that any man can do to level the scales. Many attempts were made to set the balance in order with the blood sacrifice of animals, but this merely set Justice to rocking. Then Grace came. Unmerited favor. For those of us that have been or will be called, God's Grace flows freely upon the scales of Justice in the form of Christ's blood. Astoundingly, the balance levels itself.

"For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound..." Romans 7:5,6

I was listening to the following hymn, when I was struck by the "smiling Justice" that prompted me to write this post. With flowing tears, I must have played the song three more times after that. Read it for yourself...

Let us love and sing and wonder
Let us praise the Savior's name
He has hushed the law's loud thunder
He has quenched Mt. Sinai's flame

Let us love the Lord who bought us
Pitied us when enemies
Called us by His grace and taught us
Gave us ears and gave us eyes

He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He presents our souls to God

Let us wonder grace and justice
Join and point to mercy's store
When through grace in Christ our trust is
Justice smiles and asks no more

He who washed us with his blood
He who washed us with his blood
He who washed us with his blood
Has secured our way to God

Let us praise and join the chorus
Of the saints enthroned on high
Here they trusted him before us
Now their praises fill the sky

He has washed us with his blood
He has washed us with his blood
He has washed us with his blood
He has washed us with his blood
He will bring us home to God

Based on a hymn by John Newton (1725-1807)