Friday!

Proverbs!

To do justice [is] joy to the righteous,

But ruin to workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 21:15 YLT98

At first read this proverb feels good. Let those workers of iniquity, the ones who deserve justice be ruined.

Not only does that put me on the side of the righteous, but I am one of the righteous.

And then it starts to unravel me just a bit... because I see within me both of these people.

I like to be able to use a proverb like this as a weapon, or to justify my superiority when someone who has hurt or harmed others rightly gets justice. 

Justice should happen.

And being part of making that happen is a good thing.

But I cannot escape the truth that I too deserve to be on the receiving end of justice, so the work of doing justice, of holding one another to account for actions, words, harm that has been caused, is done with humility. 

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