Many churches today place a huge emphasis on God's love and grace, but there is very little proper and balanced emphasis on God's justice.

Some teach that because God is a God of love and grace and holds no record of wrongs, He takes away the need to impose justice upon people. This is far from the truth because it goes against the nature of a holy God who desires nothing less than the highest standard of justice and holiness.

It was because of God's justice that He gave up His only son to atone for the sins of all mankind. God may have forgotten all our sins when we repented of them, but that's not to say that there was no justice and that there was no price to pay.

Not only is justice necessary, but it is actually also a blessing. God's justice is no less than an extension of God's grace to all mankind. Without the blessing of His justice, discipline and truth, the world would be in complete disarray, and sadly there is reason that it already is because men have deserted the justice of God.

Just as much as we pray for God's grace to come, we are to equally pray for his justice -- a form of His grace still -- so that we would be blessed through it. Here are three benefits that God's justice gives us.

Compassion

Deuteronomy 10:18 says, "He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing." It is because God is just that He extends mercy and grace to those who are in dire need of it.

Without the justice of God, there would be no compassion. But because God loves social justice, He looks at the poor, broken, sick, lost and derelict with compassion and love.

Equality

If God were not just, he would not impose equality amongst all men. Many agnostics would argue that God is a racist who plays favorites because He favoured Israel, but that would only be true if one were to discount the fact that God showed justice toward Israel too when they became unfair to others nations. Psalm 103:6 says, "The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed."

Success

Because God is just, he lets those who are diligent earn their keep, and causes those who are sluggish to experience inconvenience in hopes of spurring character and skill in them. Deuteronomy 16:20 tells us, "Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you"