Seeking Justice

 "He has told you, O man, what is good;

    and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

    and to walk humbly with your God?"

Micah 6:8 (ESV)

 "For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people." 

Esther 10:3 

We are told to seek justice, but I always had a hard time with balancing justice and revenge. I would ask God how I was supposed to seek it without it being about retribution or vengeance. Recently He has begun to reveal to me what He meant when He gave that command.

He wants us to do justice for others and not ourselves. For those who live around us and across the globe. He places a burden on our hearts to right the wrongs being done to fellow believers and non-believers in order that we may seek to bring justice. Just as Mordecai did in Esther we are to do today "he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people".  We are to seek that the oppression be lifted off the backs of those around us. We are to seek for the salvation of the souls of those we come in contact with. We are to seek that the hungry be made full with food and Christ (this includes the monetarily rich people). We are to care for the widows and the orphans... (Isaiah 58) There are many ways that the church can do such things.

 These can be done through prayer if you are someone who God brings to their knees in prayer, giving finically to Christian organizations or missionaries that are seeking to eradicate any type of oppression if your gift is generosity, volunteer your time if God has given you the gifting to fight for justice on the front lines, seeking God in faith if faith is your gift, and so many more. People will try to tell you that you have to do every single one of these yourself but God made each person in the church to be an extension of each other which allows us to focus solely on the gift God gave us without the pressure of having to do it all. If we all do our part, whether it be bringing awareness to the issues, supporting them in prayer/financial means.... so much can be done for the kingdom of God.