Injustice

WED., MAR. 16, 1983, 5:36 AM
FARM, STUDY

Listen, o son, for I come to you this morning with a teaching of importance. This does not imply that some given to you are unimportant, but is just a descriptor for this meditation… an assurance that it is worthwhile for you to be up and writing rather than sleeping comfortably as the new day dawns.

Justice is important to Me. I am the teaching Spirit of a just God. And yet, as I have told you before, justice must usually be tempered with mercy. Justice without mercy can be fair but cruel. Too much mercy becomes injustice to those who have been wronged. And it certainly is not easy to maintain the right balance, even in those matters that I control directly.

The critical lesson in the television program you watched late last evening is that individual people do make a difference in the dispensation of justice. In that particular episode justice seemed to call for the punishment of both police officers, for the evidence was against them. Quincy, as an individual with resources, persisted until the evidence was more extensive and the one who lied finally “broke” and told the truth. Then it was clear that what had been justice, if carried out, would have been injustice. And you wondered how often such happens without the dedicated, resourceful individual who can make the difference.

You are right in thinking that it does happen rather often. However, there are three compensations. One is that, for any person who suffers an injustice that person may, at another time, benefit from an injustice to another. This is not a balance that I am involved in often… it just works out this way. There just are compensating injustices. Sometimes it is not possible to be aware that one has benefitted from an injustice. At other times it is obvious, but the person still focuses upon the previous injustice done to self and will not acknowledge the “compensation”.

Another is that realization of relationship between injustice and mercy… that what appears to the one wronged as injustice may be the other side of mercy. Now how mercy is received is the critical factor. If the one who is the beneficiary of mercy, deserved or undeserved, accepts this with humility and vows to live a more selfless, helpful, productive life because of the mercy received, then the world may be, in balance, better off than if pure justice had prevailed. If the mercy is seen as deserved or as a “break” which allows the continuation of harmful, selfish acts then the whole is not benefitted, and the mercy must be seen more as injustice. Is this a risk worth running. Hear, o son, as I say, “Yes, it is.”

For this ties in with the third compensation, which is the opportunity for spiritual growth. Anyone who suffers from an act or an ongoing condition of injustice can be harmed, even destroyed by this, but also can realize growth of spirit. If you were to lose your position at the university it would appear to be an injustice, given all the criteria. Yet it would be a challenge to your spirit to lead forth in new areas of endeavor, without rancor and without unnecessary selfish feelings of “poor me”. You could come closer to Me, for you own resources would seem inadequate.