There are plenty of stories available about people doing amazing things, working to make the world a better place and enacting biblical justice – making things right. They’re stories that involve some of the darkest places in the world and some of the biggest atrocities. There are also the stories of those acting really self sacrificially around our own communities, totally changing their lives for the good of others – living out justice. What does that mean for the rest of us?

Relevant Magazine has tackled that very question in an article that is well worth reading. It asks the question ‘what does it mean for us to live lives of love and justice every day?’

Read the article, it’s a good one. It’s easy to isolate justice as a bunch of external activities that we move in and out of – which is why I like the question of a life of justice. At the heart of it is the need for an ongoing internal transformation, but that transformation is not divorced from our outer life. The two feed off one another. The Spirit works externally through the things we do and internally deep inside us. The Spirit also works within us to affect what we do externally. If we limit the pursuit of our lives to simply one or the other, we miss the real transformation that can take place that enables a life of love and justice.

There are things we can do to make love and justice not simply a series of events we undertake from time to time but the very nature of our lives. The Relevant article, Justice for the Rest of us is worth reading to either get that process going or simply deepen it a little bit more.