Spiritual Ponderings

Jesus invites every person to join His class action lawsuit against Satan. If we are willing to believe the truth that God declares about the cause of our sinful condition, we can sign up to participate in the lawsuit to vacate the sentence for our punishment on grounds that the charges relied on to convict us are based on a fraudulent premise. We have been manipulated under duress and misinformed, and thus the charges must be vacated while the accuser himself is to receive the punishments he demanded against us. This is according to the requirements of the legal system he put in place to punish us. If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness , and has testified falsely against his brother ; t...

If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you , leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly , while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge , and the judge deliver you to the officer , and you be cast into prison . Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny . (Matthew 5:23-26) He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens. When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time ? Why don't you judge fo...

I woke up early this morning and found myself immersed in an old familiar emotion – intense anger over a blatant injustice. Yesterday a friend of mine relayed a story of being defeated in court, not because it was unclear whether he was in the right or not but on a technicality. It was clear that the court and his opponent knew ahead of time how it would turn out, but they used that system to 'put him in his place' and let him know who had the power. For most of my life these kinds of stories have infuriated me. I have long assumed this was because I had a keen sense of justice as some other people often feel. The way we think of justice is based however, on a faulty foundation, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, i.e. reward and punishment as the symbol of the scales represents. But what God has been showing me for a number of years is that His justice is very different from the balancing sort of justice we are used to and as a result God's just...