Eternal props for true justice

The only solid foundation for a just and prosperous society is undoubtedly the word and values of the Kingdom of God. Using purely ethical and humanistic reasoning, a nation will never be able to elaborate a truly just system.

Proverbs 14:12 states: “There is a way that seems right to a man; but its end is the way of death ”. Jeremiah 17: 9 adds: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and perverse." In other words, man needs more than his own moral reasoning and speculation to arrive at full justice. It requires the fixed points of God's absolute and eternal wisdom to orient itself correctly.

The mind of the individual alienated from God is a failed, faulty instrument. Like a broken computer, it is capable of great feats at times. But due to its faulty processor, it can also produce gross nonsense and lead to serious errors. Only the sure compass of divine wisdom, poured into the Scriptures and disseminated through the action of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the children of God, can save a society from falling into the abyss of moral relativism and disguised injustice.

Without the absolute and timeless points of reference that only God's word can provide, all that is left for a humanistic culture in its quest for truth and justice are the deceptive labyrinths of moral relativism and the treacherous mirages of situational ethics. . Left in the dim light provided by his fallen mind, the modern individual is easily disoriented. He ends up calling the bad good and the good bad.

The apostle Paul accurately explained this phenomenon two thousand years ago in his epistle to the Romans (vs. 21 and 22):

21 For knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give thanks, but were puffed up in their reasoning, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

22 Professing to be wise, they became fools.

Later, Paul adds:

28 And since they did not approve of taking God into account, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things that are not convenient.

Often times, what seems fair to humans is merely a subjective projection of their own selfish preferences and inclinations. Much of what passes for justice in our societies today is nothing more than the isolated preference of interest groups in power, or the passing winds of cultural fashions that come and go over time. It is far from representing the truth and objective, absolute and unchangeable justice of God. The antidote? The healthy wisdom that only comes from God, the mind of Christ, a mind illuminated by the Holy Spirit that receives understanding to make decisions that benefit societies and their institutions. When societies humble themselves before Jesus Christ, and submit their minds to divine illumination, then they will understand "justice, justice and equity, and every good way" (Proverbs 2: 9).