Remember OJ?

 

 

Eliphaz continues his “spot on” declarations concerning God, and I want to back up those declarations with other portions of Scripture especially here as it relates to the justice of God. Get this truth into your heart lest any root of bitterness and unforgiveness develop in you. Nobody gets away with anything in this life. God knows! He sees! He will repay!

 

And consider this! Every single act of injustice was squared up on the cross. Jesus took the penalty for all injustices on Calvary! This means that the redeemed of God have all their “injustices” covered by the blood of Jesus. The “unredeemed? Well, “vengeance is Mine says the Lord, I will repay.” (Rom 12:19)

 

That some may get away with injustice because of the grace and mercy of God through the blood of Jesus may cause us to cry “foul!” But let us remember our own sinful condition and injustices from which we have been delivered through merciful God-granted faith in Jesus. As 2Co 5:21 reminds us: “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

 

In this life, we have no clue as to how often God steps in and thwarts the plans of the enemy. Rest assured….He does, and rest assured, even when those evil plans unfold in real life, God will ultimately turn them out for His good! Ge 50:20 "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive”.

 

Eliphaz tells us: “He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.” (Job 5:12) This truth is affirmed in Ps 33:10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.

 

Then in verse 13 Eliphaz asserts:  13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them. This truth is affirmed in Ps 9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

 

 In verse 14 Eliphaz says, “14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.” And in  De 28:29 we read: "And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.

In verse 15: “But He saves the needy from the sword, From the mouth of the mighty, And from their hand. And in  Ps 35:10 we read: “All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like You, Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?"

 

Nobody gets away with anything in this life. God knows! He sees! He will repay!

And so Eliphaz can say in verse 16: So the poor have hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.”

 

The mouth of injustice was forever closed on Calvary when Jesus took the wrath of God against any and all sins, but woe to those who reject this free gift of forgiveness through faith in Jesus, because God asserts, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay!

Remember O.J. Simpson? Most people feel O.J. Simpson got away with murder, but in the end, all we can say is, “We’ll see about that, we’ll see.” If there is any repayment to be made for injustice, it’s in the hands of God.