God is Just

The Rock! – His deeds are perfect, Yea, all His ways are just. Deut.32:4

I found a web site that has all different translations of the Bible here is this verse


God is just.

It is the key message and the while it is often difficult to see the justice. When the perspective is of the whole from ‘far away’ it is easier to see the justice.

Justice is much different from Fairness. Much is not fair and yet it can be just.

We reviewed a contrast in attitude toward death. When burying the dead we say “Blessed be the True Judge…” to get people to walk away from the grave and go on living.

On the other hand, we read the poem by Edna St Vincent Millay
Dirge without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, --- but the best is lost.

The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.


And then R. Marder read an excerpt from The Spiritual Life of Children
By Robert Coles (pg 273) about Leah a Jewish child who held her faith in God’s justice even in the face of untimely death. She held the image of God as her Rock as described in the 61st Psalm: "Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I"