Coming to Terms With Injustice

Tomorrow is Good Friday. At this time, the nation is experiencing a great injustice. A brain injured woman is being brutally and mercilessly deprived of food and water at the behest of her husband with the blessing of the courts. She was not dying, but without food and water, she is going to die. She is under armed guard and nobody is even allowed to put some cold water on her lips. No visible power on earth seems to be able to deliver her from death or from this brutality.

Good Friday is a day when the greatest injustice in the world was committed. The courts were involved. A "friend" was involved in the betrayal. The head of the political body couldn’t save Him. The people wanted Him dead. It was a state-sponsored execution, a lynching.

It helps us come to grips with today’s injustice. It helps us accept that injustice of this magnitude can happen. It happened in Jerusalem, at the apex of its morality and legal system. It helps us get a glimpse into that unjust execution that happened two thousand five years ago in Jerusalem.

Good Friday: It's real. It happened. It's with us.