Jesus’ Answer to “where is justice?!”

We often ask or hear someone ask “where is justice!?” It is both a question and an angry taunt to the glaring injustices around us. And often there is an echo of helplessness to the question.

A friend of mine recently asked me what would an ideal justice system look like. I don’t know.

But I think Jesus was responding to this sort of frustration about justice undelivered when he said, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you…” (Luke 6:27)

Jesus of course, of all people, knew how it was like to be bullied and to be aggrieved without recourse. He was after all a child out of wedlock, a poor peasant living under colonial rule and was teaching against mainstream religious system. Only a few chapters ago, Luke said some people was trying to throw him off a cliff! (Luke 4:29)

Despite the injustice done to him, Jesus taught his disciples to,