Can I receive justice from God’s hands here on earth or am I waiting for eternity.

During the last week of Easter, we will discuss one of the six truths of our religion every day. As an echo of the biggest holiday of the year.

Let’s imagine that a person who is not “angry” at his brother in quotation marks comes up to us and says: “What did I do to him that he doesn’t call me?” And he adds: “If he speaks first, I am the elder, so I will speak.” This is how he imagines justice. What kind of justice is he talking about? Let’s think about a just judgment to be able to understand the fourth main truth: God is a just judge, he rewards the good and punishes the bad.

The Holy Scriptures tell us about this truth in the Acts of the Apostles, where we read: “But God overlooked the times of ignorance and now proclaims to people that everyone and everywhere should repent because he has appointed a day when he will judge the righteous on earth through a man whom he has appointed for this and testified to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17:30-31).
Let’s talk about justice, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us, and let’s think about what justice should be towards God and our neighbor. Justice is a moral virtue that consists of a constant and firm will give God and neighbor what belongs to him. Justice towards God is called the “virtue of religion” (virtue religionis). Justice toward people makes a person capable of respecting the rights of everyone and bringing harmony to human relationships that promote a reasonable attitude (aequitas) toward people and the common good. A righteous person, who is often mentioned in the Holy Scriptures, is characterized by the constant directness of his thinking and the correctness of his behavior towards his neighbor. “Neither favor the poor, nor take sides with the wealthy! When we strive for this righteousness, we will be approaching our goal, and at the end of time, when God’s kingdom reaches its fullness, after the general judgment, we will reign as righteous forever with Christ, glorified in body and soul. Then the Church “will be completed… in heavenly glory, when… along with the human race, the whole world will be perfectly restored in Christ, which is closely connected with man and through him achieves its goal.”

“Neither do you favor the poor, nor take sides with the rich!” And now where is justice when we do not have faith properly instilled in us? We are prejudiced against people, we are looking for our truth, which often meets resistance, which is logical. How to open ourselves to justice? first of all, we have to come out of ourselves, by starting to value ourselves, by accepting ourselves as God’s gift that has a mission in this world. We will not mock each other, humiliate, humiliate, disparage , and degrade the human dignity of our neighbors. We as Christians often surpass non-Christians in their approach to their fellow man. Why? Because they realize that they are dependent on each other and one without the other has no chance in this world. Meanwhile, we – Christians mistakenly explain our relationship to God, and our relationship with our neighbors is also derived from this. This relationship to God must be assessed by each one of us. To be able to assess this relationship correctly, let’s try to confront it with the life of Jesus Christ. Only then will we be able to have a proper relationship with God and people, otherwise our life will be empty and it is against both God and people?

Let’s think about the fable about the bear family, which began to interpret justice in its own way. Once upon a time there lived a bear with a bear and cubs. It was indeed a modest family and very popular in its animal community. The little bears were playing with the other animals and were happy. But once there was a turning point in their life because they started to direct their lives according to the public opinion of the animal community. They cared a lot about public opinion and began to manage their lives accordingly. The little bears got into the wrong party, which looked perfect on the outside, but inside was full of envy, malice, slander, intrigue and manipulation, so the little bears learned to live their hypocritical lives. And it grew to such heights that they began to be hypocritical even to themselves. They began to compete with each other until they hated each other. Parents saw the rivalry but they let it go because they benefited from it. Each of the little bears wanted to please them, so they always brought something. They were satisfied. And once, after a good lunch, they said to each other: “How well we are, we have full bellies and little bears (grizzly bears) who take care of us.” And they said to themselves that: “We raised them well.” After some time, small grizzlies became grizzlies – bears. Here the parents already noticed a mistake in the upbringing of the bears. Grizzly – the bears had everything, only one thing they could not do – to be fair. They weren’t brought up to it, and they didn’t want to be brought up to it themselves. They wanted justice but did not know how to get it. They really wanted to get closer and be little bears again, but that was no longer possible. after a good lunch they said to each other: “How well we are, we have full bellies and little bears (grizzlies) who take care of us.” And they said to themselves that: “We raised them well.” After some time, small grizzlies became grizzlies – bears. Here the parents already noticed a mistake in the upbringing of the bears. Grizzly – the bears had everything, only one thing they could not do – to be fair. They weren’t brought up to it, and they didn’t want to be brought up to it themselves. They wanted justice but did not know how to get it. They really wanted to get closer and be little bears again, but that was no longer possible. after a good lunch they said to each other: “How well we are, we have full bellies and little bears (grizzlies) who take care of us.” And they said to themselves that: “We raised them well.” After some time, small grizzlies became grizzlies – bears. Here the parents already noticed a mistake in the upbringing of the bears. Grizzly – the bears had everything, only one thing they could not do – to be fair. They weren’t brought up to it, and they didn’t want to be brought up to it themselves. They wanted justice but did not know how to get it. They really wanted to get closer and be little bears again, but that was no longer possible. Here the parents already noticed a mistake in the upbringing of the bears. Grizzly – the bears had everything, only one thing they could not do – to be fair. They weren’t brought up to it, and they didn’t want to be brought up to it themselves. They wanted justice but did not know how to get it. They really wanted to get closer and be little bears again, but that was no longer possible. Here the parents already noticed a mistake in the upbringing of the bears. Grizzly – the bears had everything, only one thing they could not do – to be fair. They weren’t brought up to it, and they didn’t want to be brought up to it themselves. They wanted justice but did not know how to get it. They really wanted to get closer and be little bears again, but that was no longer possible.They did not know justice in their lives and could not be fair to others.

Aren’t many of our families similar to this bear family? We always try to explain justice according to our disposition, that is, whether someone is sympathetic to us, unsympathetic, whether he showed us love or not, whether he offended us, etc. Let’s try to overcome all this and look towards our eternity about our neighbor. Keep in mind that these frog-mouse wars are nothing compared to eternity. We will not be judged by this but by our relationship with God and our neighbor.

I believe that none of us wants to be like these bears, neither me nor you, even if we are inclined to do so. Let’s try to be little bears and reshape our lives in the light of justice. This light of righteousness is the fear of God, not fear and cowardice. If we always keep the Lord God in mind, we will not deviate from justice either to him or to our neighbors. Let us confront our life with the life of Jesus Christ, let us sanctify ourselves with his Spirit. So that we can say: “I try to be just.” We know that one of God’s truths is: God is a just judge who rewards the good and punishes the bad. Let us always keep this in mind when we receive punishment or rebuke.