Monday, October 5, 2026
October 5. Justice will be done. Beloved. Never avenge yourselves.
But leave it to the wrath of God for it is written. Vengeance is mine? I will repay says the Lord Romans 12:19 All of you have been wronged at one time or another. Most of you probably.
Have been wronged seriously by someone who has never apologized or done anything, sufficient to make it right. And one of the deep hindrances to your letting go of that hurt. And bitterness. Is the conviction, the Justified conviction that Justice should be done.
And that the moral fabric of the universe will unravel, if people can just get away with horrible wrongs and deceive everyone, That’s one of the hindrance is. To forgiveness and letting grudges go. Is that the only one we have our own sin to deal with? But it is a real one.
We feel that just to let it go would be to admit that Justice simply won’t be done. …
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Excerpt from “Justice Will Be Done” (Solid Joys, John Piper). © Desiring God. All rights reserved by the copyright holder; shown here as a brief excerpt with a link to the original.
This excerpt was transcribed automatically from the audio and may contain small errors.