Proverbs 21:3
To
do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Sometimes
we can overreact to a situation and not give the appropriate judgment or
response. When we come down hard on our
children or husband and then find out that we actually misjudged the facts, we
may be inclined to make it up to them.
Maybe we give our child more computer time, or cozy up to our husbands
and try to sacrifice something to make up for our poor judgment. They would much rather want us to react with
good justice and judgment the first time than try to make up for it with
sacrifice.
This
is how the Lord looks at things too.
Sacrifices were given to the Jewish people by the Lord to cover sins
that they would commit. These were given
to provide a way to get things right but never to become that which should be
an excuse to do things wrong. Even the
finished work of Jesus Christ which does more than cover our sins, but cleanses
them, is not to be treated so lightly as to excuse a casual attitude towards
judgment and justice. The blood of
Christ is made available to us and yet it is such a costly provision we don’t
want to spend it recklessly upon the debt of sin incurred in careless actions.
The Lord desires us to seek to do justice and judgment in all the matters we
face and this is acceptable to the Lord.
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