Two Different Views....

When you think about wicked behavior and people who do monstrous acts against others, there are two world views. First is the worldly, non-Biblical view. Here you witness these evil acts and wonder how they get away with it. The evil people live posh lives, have children, take vacations, and seem to be happy and content with life. This world view wishes justice is carried out, but when it isn’t, go away bitter and depressed. They lose hope that life can somehow be fair. They believe everything is by chance and no human being has any real value. Thus they start to live sporadically, trying to satisfy every feeling that comes their way. They eventually lose hope. The Biblical view on this topic, sees life as not fair as well. They also see evil people prosper. They also wish justice is carried out. The only difference is that these people know God is in control. They know He is in charge. They know that His justice will be carried out, it’s just in His timing and not ours. Vengeance belongs to Him. And even though it may not happen in this lifetime, His justice will be carried out. Many times justice is being carried out because the evil doers are slaves to their own sin. They live in constant fear of being caught and losing it all. They are often prisoners in their own homes. They don’t have peace and never will. These are the things we don’t see, only God does. So the next time you read about an evil act being carried out, ask yourself which view do you have. The only view that brings peace (allowing you to let go) is the one in which you trust the Judge to carry out true Justice. God cannot be mocked. He will judge all people. Justice will be served, it just might not be to our standards.

7 “Why do the wicked prosper,growing old and powerful?8 They live to see their children grow up and settle down,and they enjoy their grandchildren.9 Their homes are safe from every fear,and God does not punish them.10 Their bulls never fail to breed.Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.11 They let their children frisk about like lambs.Their little ones skip and dance.12 They sing with tambourine and harp.They celebrate to the sound of the flute.13 They spend their days in prosperity,then go down to the grave in peace.14 And yet they say to God, ‘Go away.We want no part of you and your ways.15 Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey Him?What good will it do us to pray?’16 (They think their prosperity is of their own doing,but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.) 17 “Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished.Do they ever have trouble?Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?18 Are they driven before the wind like straw?Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?Not at all! 19 “ ‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’But I say He should punish the ones who sin,so that they understand His judgment.20 Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.21 For they will not care what happens to their familyafter they are dead. 22 “But who can teach a lesson to God,since He judges even the most powerful?23 One person dies in prosperity,completely comfortable and secure,24 the picture of good health,vigorous and fit.25 Another person dies in bitter poverty,never having tasted the good life.26 But both are buried in the same dust,both eaten by the same maggots. 27 “Look, I know what you’re thinking.I know the schemes you plot against me.28 You will tell me of rich and wicked peoplewhose houses have vanished because of their sins.29 But ask those who have been around,and they will tell you the truth.30 Evil people are spared in times of calamityand are allowed to escape disaster.31 No one criticizes them openlyor pays them back for what they have done.32 When they are carried to the grave,an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.33 A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery.Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest,and the earth gives sweet repose. Job 21:7-33