The Lord our Righteousness.

  Today I was thinking about Jeremiah 23:5-6, where Jeremiah gives a picture of the reign and rule of Jesus Christ here on the earth.  Jesus is  known here as the righteous branch and the seed.  When Jesus comes back it will be a time of excellent judicial rule.  The deicisons made in the court system will always be just and fair.  So much different than today.  Recently in the province where I live we had a woman who drown her children receive a prison sentence of six years.  Her lawyer argued succesfully that she was insane at the time.  With already time served she will be out in ten months.  Is this right and fair?  Two children are dead, a family has been destroyed and a father's heart has been broken.  I am all about compassion but what about justice.  Canada has a very broken system and needs to be fixed.  It seems the criminals have more rights than the victims.  Judges are little more than servants of the left and criminals walk the streets after only a short time in jail.  All products of years of left leaning soft sell justice.  The present government does not have the stomach to put teeth back into the justice system.  One day Jesus will reign and the victim will have justice and the criminal will be dealt according to what is going on in the their hearts not on what appears on the exterior.  God knows our hearts.  He knows what is going on inside.  He sees the real you and knows if you are sincere or not about repentance.  That is why I believe we need to keep short accounts with God and people.  We all want justice when it comes to others and compassion and mercy when it comes to us.  We will get both in the reign of Jesus.  He will give compassion to those who really mean it and justice to those who do not.  Paul states in Gal 6:8, "God is not mocked what we sow we will reap.  Make sure you are sowing good seed.  You get what you sow.