What Injustice?

I constantly struggle with whether or not to take a stand about anything. I feel a constant tugging in both directions on the strings of my heart. On the one hand I feel like it's obviously a good and righteous thing to stand up for those being oppressed or mistreated. It seems good to take a stand against the evils of the day and to speak out against such things. Why would it sooner be better to sit back while the world continues after more and more evils and every day corrupt our children with sensuality, greed, and all manner of life-like, simulated evils as a form of entertainment? Surely the right thing is to stand up for what is right!

But then I'm pulled in the opposite direction that proclaims the judgement to come and that this evil was prophesied to occur. It will not be stopped and it cannot be corrected until the Mighty God outstretches His hand in judgement. Why speak out when it is known to be futile? Why pursue a lost cause? At this point it seems easy enough to think this a bad mindset and indeed a terrible evil of Christianity. Would a righteous God truly want us to sit back and do nothing for the hurt, the oppressed, the needy, the fatherless and the widow? Of course not! But in my pursuit of helping such people, I found no good to be done!

I went to the poor and they were fed, clothed, and sheltered already. In fact, they were so well taken care of that they were quite content with their condition and had no desire to change any facet of their life. They were simply leaching a system of giving that lacked any amount of love or concern to truly help them. I found people struggling with a terrible wife or husband but it turns out they were the product of their own evils and refused to learn the righteous ways of life to ease their burden. People complain about the greed on Wall-Street but as they tweet on their iPhones it occurs to me that they're not all that bad-off and perhaps they're simply greedy themselves! Why should the rich be any less selfish than the lower and middle-class?

With a world filled with people who seek their own gain and care nothing for the well-being of others, is anything truly unjust? Evil, sure, but unjust? Perhaps justice is truly all the more served. When everyone thinks it's dog-eat-dog and live as such, how can anyone accuse anyone of anything? Injustice only occurs when a just person is punished or oppressed, but are there any just persons in the world today? I have an exceedingly difficult time finding them. I cannot find a single person who even seeks after righteousness. In fact, what I find is a generation of people who forsake righteousness all together. Talk to a Christian about righteousness and they'll tell you that it can't be done. Talk to an Atheist and they'll tell you such concepts don't exist. Proclaim that righteousness is God's desire and you'll be labeled a heretic and kicked out of churches everywhere. Where are the righteous ones?

And so, I continue to sit and ponder every day, do I take a stand or do I sit back, watch the fireworks, and weep for this generation? The only problem I see is people who forsake doing what is right and need education on the ways and benefits of living a righteous life. For this is the one and only thing God desires of us and it is the only thing God will bless. Anything short of loving, seeking, and living righteousness will reap only more evils and the fruits thereof. May God continue to reward this generation with whatever it be that it deserves whether freedom from oppression and injustice or the severest of judgments. And may those of this world learn to seek what is right that we may one day know what it means to be under the covering of our God again. Meanwhile, I'll continue to ponder, I'll continue to help, and I'll continue to speak wherever I find the opportunity. Whether I should take up a greater cause or organize a greater movement, I do not yet know. But I do wonder...