God’s justice is poetic justice.

The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment;

the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.

Psalm 9:16

The best justice is poetic justice and that is exactly how God’s judgment of the wicked works. The wickedness ends by the consequences playing out. The wages of sin is death. The justice is meted by the way in which evil falls by its own fatal actions. It burns itself out of fuel. It pushes limits until disease, derailment, derangement, downfall, or detonation end things inescapably. God’s justice prevails.

What bothers us as those whose lives must bear witness to evil events is that our perspective is limited. We do not see how the trap has been laid. We might live to see evil ensnared by a just set of ironies. We might not. But we must still believe that a merciful God gives every chance for the wicked to repent before they are brought to hell-bound ruin by their own actions. When it happens though, they will fall into pits dug for others and slip in forgotten nets hidden by their own deceit.

Lord,

I trust Your ways (Psalm 9:18-20). I wait for Your poetic justice. I know You will not let man prevail because all nations will answer in judgment to You. The needy are not forgotten by You and the hope of the poor shall not perish no matter what governments, communities, or hate groups will do. You let the nations know they are mere men and in ironic justice they will fall in their own sinful traps.

Amen