Faith in Injustice

Modern man has become an injustice collector, eagerly tallying every wrong in the world in order to justify himself. To such people, life is a rigged game a raw deal that vindicates their failures and excuses their irresponsibility. As Roger Price noted, the man who “believes in injustice” does so precisely because, in an unjust universe, he cannot be held to account. Scripture, however, teaches the opposite: God’s justice governs all history, as Deuteronomy 28 makes plain. Our crises and afflictions arise from sin, and their solution is faith and obedience. But the sinner refuses this, because to acknowledge God’s government would require confessing one’s own guilt, submitting to God’s righteousness, and abandoning self-justification. Thus he prefers to believe that injustice not the sovereign God rules the universe. He will passionately rehearse the sins of the whole world, but never his own; his long catalog of injustices is a catechism of self-righteousness, his excuse for giving little and expecting nothing of himself. Beware of such a man, and beware lest his spirit infect you. It is not injustice but the omnipotent, sovereign Lord who rules the world, and all His ways are righteousness.