This Week's Worship

Theme:

God’s justice is firm and exact. But God’s justice does not always match human ideas of moral justice. This is because God’s justice is always carried out within His grace, and His justice goes beyond our human moral standards and judgments.

This is also why we can receive forgiveness for our sins. God’s grace goes beyond human ideas of justice. According to human justice, we deserve judgment for our sins. But even in His justice, God gives us grace.

Scripture:

Habakkuk 1:1-3

The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw. 2 O Lord, how long shall I cry,
And You will not hear? Even cry out to You, “Violence!” And You will not save.
3 Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises.

1 Samuel 12:7-9

7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more! 9 Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.