From a very early age, children have an in-built sense of fairness. One of the very first reasoned comments that a child may make is ‘It’s not fair!’
As we go on through life, this sense of fairness matters more. We can be disheartened by being treated unfairly. May be at work we get blamed for something we have not done, or someone lets us do all the work and then takes the credit. It could be that people misunderstand our actions, misread our words, or misjudged our motives. It is a wonderful thing to remember that whatever we do, say, or are motivated by, God knows and hears our words in the way that we meant them and fully understands why it is that we have done whatever we do.
In the Bible, the Lord Jesus says, ‘My judgement is righteous.’ He has no ulterior motive and is incapable of doing anything less than what is perfectly right. In one sense, knowing that Jesus Christ will be our judge is great because there will be no miscarriage of justice.
