Justice

Is there hope for the 8 year old girl who has been sold into slavery and is kept locked in a brothel and forced to have sex with strangers every single day and night, because she will be beaten if she doesn't?

Is there hope for the middle-aged business man who works countless hours week after week, exhausted, pouring himself into his job, leaving no time left for his family as they slip away? This man who has been haunted lately by the question, "Where is this going?"

Is there hope for the young man ensnared at his computer screen for hours, who feels so dirty and can never escape the guilt of what he does, who longs to stop, but isn't strong enough?

Is there hope for the young woman who finds herself every night kneeling over the toilet because she is caught in a cycle of constant striving to be perfect, to look perfect, to be skinny?

Is there hope for the homeless man who begs for money so that he can get stoned or high just so he won't have to think about his hurt for a little while?

Is there hope for the mother who has longed to have a child but just miscarried for the 5th time?

Is there hope for the little boy who always hears his parents fighting, his daddy screaming, and is terrified to do or say the wrong thing for fear he might get hurt?

Is there hope for the woman that has longed for love all her life but only found pain in every relationship she has been in, whose heart can hardly feel anymore because of all the times it has been broken?

Is there hope for the young 20-something who longs to be a good husband and father to his wife a baby but is struggling to get by and barely making enough to afford rent?

Is there hope for the girl who has been lied to and sucked into a swarm of untruth by her college professors, who has been deceived by false philosiphies and doesn't know what to believe anymore?

Is there hope for the lonely 85-year old woman who lives in a nursing home all alone, whose husband, kids, friends and relatives have all already gone?

Is there hope for the 3 siblings living on the streets of India with no parents, no shoes and no money, who have to beg every day just to have something to keep them from starving to death?

Is there hope for the man with no legs and only one arm, who has lost his eyesight and is forced to beg on the streets, and will be doing that for the rest of his life?

Is there hope for the movie star in hollywood california who is sitting alone in a million-dollar home, drowning in her own riches, has everything she could possibly want yet feels so entirely and utterly lost, hopeless and desperate?

Is there hope for the family whose father was shot and killed by someone who was just simply angry at the world?

Is there hope for the young woman who had an abortion, who feels the pain and effect of it every day and feels she can never forgive herself?

Is there hope for the 18 year old who doesn't want to drink like his friends but feels he doesn't have any other options in order to survive in college?

Is God good? Is He loving? Does He care?

YES.

“For a long time I have kept silent,
I have been quiet and held myself back.
But now, like a woman in childbirth,
I cry out, I gasp and pant.
I will lay waste the mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up the pools.
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,
along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light before them
and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do;
I will not forsake them.
But those who trust in idols,
who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’
will be turned back in utter shame.

I am bringing my righteousness near,
it is not far away;
and my salvation will not be delayed.
I will grant salvation to Zion,
my splendor to Israel.

People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

"Arise, LORD, in your anger;
rise up against the rage of my enemies.
Awake, my God; decree justice!"

And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:7-8

Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
For the LORD IS A GOD OF JUSTICE.
Blessed are all who wait for him!