When you partner with injustices you become a recipient of it’s fruit and it’s just judgement.

 

Reaping and sowing is a very real biblical principle. God takes much time to tell us in advance.

 

Often we are unaware we are in the middle of a reaping season. (We love this when it’s good, but remember there are two sides to this coin.)

 

Where we’ve sown injustices, soon we will find ourselves called to account for our part in it. Be sure our sin will find us out.

 

In the kindness of God and His perfect love, He is still fully “just” unable to ignore that which is unjust.

 

Justice and righteousness are the foundations of His throne, the Bible teaches. (Psalm 89:14)

 

It seems well to ignore trespasses that do not involve us but when one of God’s children is being harmed it is just as dangerous for us to remain silent.

 

Silence still chooses a side.

 

Today we are seeing the reaping of what has been sown into the body of Christ in the way of leadership abuses and misuses. Many never spoke up, misaligned with what they thought was the righteous thing to do, and allowed sin against a brother or a sister.

 

An abusive husband was given too many chances and never called to repentance while an abused wife suffered with no hand of help. We were on the wrong side of that situation in the eyes of Christ and the plight for righteousness. Her safety didn’t concern us near enough. While we were more concerned with the saving of the abuser, we missed the saving of the abused. Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

 

Proverbs 31:8-9

Open your mouth for the mute,

For the rights of all the unfortunate.

Open your mouth, judge righteously,

And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.

 

We’ve overlooked abuses and mishandlings of God’s sheep in the church not wanting to stain the reputation of well-known leaders. All the while, sheep were damaged in the name of privacy and pride and not only was sin committed against them but often so were crimes.

 

It is interesting when we discuss David and Bathsheba of our “heart bent” towards a negative thought concerning Bathsheba. However, she was an innocent woman.

 

King David abused his leadership and power and “took her.” In other words, he raped her. This would have ruined her life in many ways and yet we often feel little to no pity for her heart. We’ve not had a right understanding of this scene in the scriptures. Perhaps it exposes our own hearts and even how we handle certain situations today?

 

It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (2 Samuel 11:2–4)

 

David only repents when God sends a prophet to call him to the truth of the matter. (Where are all the truth tellers today?) Yet, terrible consequences ensue because God must deal with sin. David indeed “took the poor man’s lamb.” (The parable Nathan used for David to condemn himself of sin. Bathsheba was the poor man’s lamb symbolically.)

 

Reaping and sowing. It often forces God’s hand into a thing He never, ever desired. It breaks His heart.

 

We, even in our reading of the Word today, have a heart bent towards injustice and misunderstanding of what in reality is actually happening.

 

What does it look like to enact God’s justice as His royal priests upon the earth?

 

Call sin what it is, sin.

Stop using scriptures to justify abusers while holding captive the abused.

 

Get between someone being harmed and the one doing the harming.

 

Go bring someone into the light of the truth. Be a Nathan.

 

Acknowledge people’s pain and wrongdoings towards them so they can heal.

 

And for the love of all that is good, and God….

Stop partnering with injustice.

 

Proverbs 22:8: “Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity.”