Day 6: Justice

I was reading my Bible this morning and I read these verses in Psalm 36.

Lord, your love reaches to the heavens, your loyalty to the skies.
Your goodness is as high as the mountains.
Your justice is as deep as the great ocean.

For some reason, I felt the greatest sense of peace wash over me as I read those words.  I read them again.

Lord, your love reaches to the heavens, your loyalty to the skies.

Your goodness is as high as the mountains.
Your justice is as deep as the great ocean.

My eyes became fixed upon that last line.

Your justice is as deep as the great ocean.

Justice is a word I think about a lot lately because of the girls.  We truly do not know what will happen with them because there is a justice system involved, one that by its own admission is blind.

But the justice of the Lord is not blind. His justice sees all.  His justice bears out an eternal perspective.   I can trust it.  Because it is as deep as the great ocean.  And because He is good.  His goodness is as high as the mountains.

And though trusting His goodness and His justice does not mean that things will absolutely turn out the way I think they should, I can trust that they will turn out the way that He has chosen.  And because I know that He is good and just and righteous and holy and infinitely loving, I trust His decisions for me. And for my family.

All that to say, I'm so grateful for a justice that runs as deep as the great ocean.  I don't know exactly how deep that is, but it sounds pretty vast.  And if God is for us, who can be against us?