Why Wait for Justice in the Ferguson Michael Brown
Shooting?
We need the
Bible because it is truth. It is Truth with a capitol T, and it gives wisdom, wisdom we need in this
fallen world. In the Bible the wisest man to ever lived warned:
Eccl. 3:16 Furthermore, I have seen under the sun
that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of
righteousness there is wickedness.
Eccl. 3:17 I said to
myself, God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man,” for a time
for every matter and for every deed is there.
And well did Martin
Luther King Jr. add . . .
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied
in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside
agitator" idea
So when justice is challenged as it is being challenged in Ferguson,
every American is affected and every community needs to be careful not to rush to
judgment in trying to arrive at justice. Cops can do wrong and citizens can
wrongly provoke cops to use lethal force to stop them. And then there are
thousands of scenarios in between both of these extremes. All Americans have a
vested interest in making sure our system of justice in all of these scenarios gets justice right.
The Executive Director of P4CM and I try to navigate our way through the
maze of obstacles standing in the way of finding justice in Ferguson. I pray
that our discussion is helpful for you. Thank you for taking the
time to listen.
