When Justice Feels Out of Reach, Who Do We Turn To?

Have you ever felt like no matter how hard you try, you just can’t measure up? That’s how Job felt. His friends told him that his outward struggles were a reflection of his inward wickedness.

Job knew that even if he tried his best, he could never achieve the righteousness required to stand before a holy God.

He says, “If I washed myself with snow, and cleansed my hands with lye, Then You would plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes would loathe me,” (Job 9:30–31).

The truth is, there is no hope of appealing our case before God without a mediator. We cannot approach Him on our own. God is too powerful, too righteous, too holy for us to even debate with Him. No mere human could ever achieve the righteousness required to stand before Him.

“There is no arbitrator between us, who can place his hand upon us both,” (Job 9:33).

But there is hope. Jesus, in his Deity, speaks to God and pleads our case before the throne. In his humanity, he sympathizes with all our distresses. He bore the indignation of God that should have fallen on each of us. Our only hope in eternity is the mediator Jesus.

Job saw this need thousands of years before the arrival of Christ on earth. And we still need it today. We may think we are innocent people, yet we are afflicted. But God is not a perverter of justice. He provided a way for us to approach Him through Jesus.

So I urge you today to contemplate this doctrine. If there is any hope for us, we must have a hearing before God. And that hearing can only come through the mediator Jesus. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Trust in Jesus today and find hope for eternity.

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