It’s amazing how quickly we shift from longing for justice to expecting mercy. If God’s people are “to do justice and love mercy,” as Micah puts it, neither of those things is hard to understand. But it’s challenging to practice both of them at the same time.
It helps to understand what biblical justice is. As Paul Louis Metzger says, “As those justified by faith in the God of all justice, we are to experience the wholeness that he brings and extend it as citizens of his kingdom.”
Bringing wholeness, making things right, is at the heart of God’s justice. The articles in this Common Challenge show us how to do both justice and mercy, rightness and compassion. After all, God’s goodness is seen in both his amazing justice and his amazing grace.
