Today from Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest:
“Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is – Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.”
It occurs to me that this addresses much of the angst and enmity swirling around us today. I certainly know I am guilty – expecting justice from others without spending at least as much time contemplating whether I am dispensing it myself. Of course dispensing justice, not expecting it, rips away from me my coveted entitlement to whine and complain when I don’t receive what I defined as justice and came to expect. (There is a smirk there I don’t want to get lost in the text.)
It occurs to me... 