Why Am I Getting Too Worked Up With Injustices in This Fallen World?

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I was listening to John F. MacArthur's sermon "How Should Christians Respond to the Riots?" I was thinking about how injustice is very common. There are many human rights organizations today that are emissaries of Satan. In what way are these human rights organizations emissaries of Satan? Some of them are meant to carry Socialist garbage to get rid of free markets, others are more focused on political correctness than human rights, others would rather side with the criminals than the victims provided that the price is right (at least for them), and others would make people undermine authority. True, there is such a thing as a healthy fear for authority but these human rights organizations are giving people an unhealthy fear of authority. Fearing authority is normal and healthy. However, fearing authority and hating it is abnormal and unhealthy. It's like I fear to break the law because I could get punished for the right reasons. However, it's not healthy for me to fear law enforcers looking at them as killjoy monsters rather than to be fearful of them for the right reasons.

While listening to the said lecture, I was thinking about some words by MacArthur, and here are some words that are getting at me:
You don’t need to spend your life an agitator, hostile, angry, full of vengeance, bitterness, anger. “We’re all dust to dust,” he says in chapter 3, verse 20. So just enjoy what God has given you. Our toil is cursed by the fall, our sense of justice is cursed by the fall, and our experience with unrighteousness is part of that curse. But God will make everything beautiful in His time. 
Do you see injustice? Have you been a victim of injustice? Was your injustice any greater than that of many others through human history? Was it greater than the injustice of the Jewish trials to which the Son of God was subjected? There’s no promise of justice in this life. We do the best that we can as fallen creatures in a fallen world. But God will judge in His time. You and I are powerless; we have to leave these matters to God. From a human standpoint, time is lost, people are lost, opportunity is lost, jobs are lost, wives are lost, husbands are lost, children are lost. All these things are chased away and lost in the past, unrecoverable for us. But in the final judgment, God will bring back the past, connect it with the future; nothing will be lost. It is the knowledge of God’s absolute sovereign control that is the freedom that we all seek. 
Stop trying to fix the fallen world. The quest for justice is a vanity. It is a vapor. So there’s no justice, no perfect justice. There will be. God will bring every deed into judgment whether good or evil. Let God be God, and you be you. Live under God’s providence. Accept what He has given to you. Be joyful; be happy. Don’t take vengeance. Don’t be angry, hostile. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Show mercy, kindness, compassion. But in all things, tell sinners to fear God and keep His commandments.

I just think of the number of times I want to take the law into my hands. However, just listening to MacArthur's sermon and those words really strike me. I always feel like it's my job to correct the world while I'm full of error myself. I always feel like the righteous judge who seeks to clear the world of vice and sin. How often I find myself believing I'm so much purer than the sinful crowd of today. If there's another behavior that Jesus attacked the Pharisees for - it's also their self-righteousness. Jesus also warned His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Too often I find myself forgetting that I myself am a sinner and I deserve everything bad that happens as a result of it.

The issue of my injustice is that was it the worst injustice? What about Jesus who suffered unjustly for my sake? I was told that it's God's will I suffer. I found the thought repulsive at first. I always felt that if God is good then why does He allow suffering? It's because He's good. It does sound very hard to believe but God as a reason that I can't see. I was thinking about why I had to suffer a difficult high school while secular schools were having it easy. Somebody I knew transferred back to the secular school I grew up in and was now having an easier time. I stayed in the Baptist school and I was having a harder time. 

Then I think of these words also from the same sermon from MacArthur today:
“This finds grace.” You put yourself in a position of divine grace when you suffer unjustly. “For what credit is there” – verse 20 – “if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure, this finds grace with God.” So you suffered, you suffered unjustly. As a child of God, you have been given grace in that occasion. 
Here’s the great example, verse 21: “You’ve been called for this purpose.” What? Yes. “You’ve been called to suffer unjustly, since Christ also suffered for you, not only in a redemptive way, but as an example for you to follow in His steps.” Suffering unjustly, He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; and while being unjustly reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously.” That’s our example. So you suffer, you suffer unjustly. What do you do? You do what a believer is called to do: you commit no sin, no deception; you don’t strike back; you utter no threats; you just entrust yourself to the one who judges righteously.

The idea that if you do what's right then you'll never get into trouble is highly illogical. Consider how many good policemen can die in the line of duty. Do you know why some cops get killed by gangsters? It's because that good cop is meddling in their evil affairs and doing his job as a police officer. Daniel did what was right and he got into the lion's den. Jeremiah did what was right and he lived a life of a loser, humanly speaking. Jesus did what was right 100% as the eternal Son of God and he was also considered a failure, humanly speaking. The cross is viewed as a failure by the world, humanly speaking. Also, having a personal relationship with Jesus is dangerous because it can put you into trouble with a world gone mad. It's dangerous to have a relationship with Jesus as persecution is expected but the reward is of infinite value.

I was thinking of why God allows Christians to suffer unjustly. Unfair? Well, salvation has never been about fairness but mercy. Fair will only send everyone to Hell. Jesus suffered unfairly as an example and not just to redeem. I think that the injustices God allows are to keep Christians humble. 1 Peter 5:10 talks about perfection through suffering. 1 Corinthians 12:7 had Paul wanting that thorn removed but God said no and he accepted it. Paul then understood that without the thorn in the flesh then he will become arrogant. It's very easy for Christians to be arrogant when they don't have suffering. Also, without suffering, then how can Christians appreciate relief whether it's in this fallen world or to appreciate Heaven better?

I was thinking of what Hebrews 11:35 that says others refused deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. I was thinking about the history of the Bible. William Tyndale was martyred for translating the Latin Bible into English. Martin Luther lived a life of persecution and risked everything the Latin Bible translated into German. Think about how the persecution of Christians was getting severe. Hebrews was written during the time of Nero. Nero was even more psychologically unstable than Caligula. It took the Senate to declare death to Nero to get rid of him. Nero was enjoying his sadistic circuses of Christians getting massacred in his circus. However, God made a testimony through suffering. Nero's persecution only made Christianity grow stronger in the Roman Empire. The injustice God allowed only made Christians bolder because they know the world isn't their home. 

God allowing injustice is also so Christians can learn to apply the principle of forgiveness. When Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount - it wasn't just meant for head knowledge but also heart knowledge. That means, when Jesus taught about turning the other cheek, going the extra mile, and being willing to give your cloak - it meant to love your enemies. Think about it that depriving your enemy of the satisfaction when kindness is returned. In this world, you just can't escape mean people and there will always be lots of them. There's a saying that you can't avoid mean people but you can choose your response. It's like would you be mean to the mean person or would you rise up and be different? A lot of people tried to correct wrongs with another wrong. Take the feminists for instance. They tried to correct violations done against women by assaulting men. True, men who beat up women are cowards while the same applies for the reverse. In return, feminism has only given men more reasons to perpetuate the bitter cycle of vengeance. You can't avoid insults but you can choose to either (a) turn the other cheek or (b) retaliate and make things worse.

Besides, I can't really count the number of times I get mad at God as to why He allowed injustice. As I read Job, I always realize that God rebuked Job. Job was wondering why he was passing through all those trials. God soon replied to Job if the latter knew better. Job could do nothing more than humble himself. I was thinking that I should just do my part and trust that God is good. God is good and He knows any suffering He allows for the believer will be better than not allowing them to suffer at all. If God just gave Christians all rainbows and sunshine then He won't be a holy, righteous God. Instead, He gives all the suffering and relief accordingly out of His goodness and for the good of those who trust Him.

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