TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2023
“By having himself baptized, Jesus reveals God’s justice, that justice He came to bring into the world.
Very often we have a limited idea of justice, and think that it means: those who do wrong pay, and in this way compensate for the wrong they have done.
But God’s justice, as the Scripture teaches, is much greater: it does not have as its end the condemnation of the guilty,
but their salvation and rebirth, making them righteous: from unjust to just.
It is a justice that comes from love,
from the depths of compassion and mercy
that are the very heart of God, the Father who is moved when we are oppressed by evil
and fall under the weight of sins and fragility.
God’s justice, then, is not intended to distribute penalties and punishments
but rather, as the Apostle Paul affirms, it consists of making us, his children, righteous (cf. Rm 3:22-31)
freeing us from the snares of evil, healing us, raising us up again.
The Lord is always there, not ready to punish us,
but with his hand outstretched to help us rise up. ”
Pope Francis
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