Justice or Mercy? by Ember

Well, I've been spending a little time staying up late into the night exploring the darkness the last few days. It is the time of year to see a lot of interesting things at night. It's always a relief when morning comes on each new day... but we do learn so much at night. I really love the Day that God has made for us. It is not made up of day only, rather it is made up of, day, night, day; one day, and it was good!

You find out amazing things about God at night. I've been thinking it's like an eclipse. An eclipse isn't bad, right? But it would be if the sun never came back, as was the fear of the proverbial native. We like lots of day, but when we get an eclipse every once in a while it is really cool!

Did you know that during an eclipse we learn something about the sun that we would never know if not for the eclipse; if not for the fact that the moon is in the exact position that it is, that it is the exact size that it is, that it is the exact distance from the sun that it is? During a complete solar eclipse is the only time we are able to view the sun's corona. Scientists get really excited about this and they could tell you a lot about all the amazing stuff they learn from this phenomenon.  Well, this reminds me about how I learn special things about God in the darkness.  .  . maybe even about God's crown, hum.

Anyway, this is what I was thinking about today as a result -- Choice. We have choice because we have free will. However, the choice is not really between good and evil. Even though there is, in a sense, good and evil, to us good and evil appear to be a certain way because of our limited perspective. To God everything appears differently because he is all knowing and outside of time and space.

The choice for us is between justice and mercy. Because, in the end, we do not instruct God about what is good and evil. He instructs us. Regardless of what you think or deem to be good or evil.  It does not matter in the end, right? You will be forced by the consequences to accept the will of God, if there is a God, right? So if God says, "White is black, black is white." You say, "Yes, boss!"  Right?

It doesn't matter if you say, "I know God is good and I choose the good." What is THE good? If you are standing there at the end and God says, "This thing that you thought was good, you know that? Well, that was, in fact, not good. This thing that you call evil, you know what I am talking about? Well, I call it good." 

What will your choice be then? Justice or mercy?